Definitions for seniority

seniority sen·ior·i·ty

Spelling: [seen-yawr-i-tee, -yor-]
IPA: /sinˈyɔr ɪ ti, -ˈyɒr-/

Seniority is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 418 anagrams from letters in seniority (eiinorsty).

Definitions for seniority

noun

  1. the state of being senior; priority of birth; superior age.
  2. priority, precedence, or status obtained as the result of a person's length of service, as in a profession, trade, company, or union:

Origin of seniority

1400-50; late Middle English Medieval Latin seniōritās, equivalent to Latin senior senior + -itās -ity

Examples for seniority

Of the three candidates, Miller has the most seniority on the House intelligence committee.

Power in Washington was dictated by seniority for generations.

As long as seniority reigns among teachers,” Klein writes, “we will fail.

His age and seniority of settlement, also entitled him to it.

And third, a “last-in, first-out” law gives priority to seniority over success in times of teacher layoffs.

Deals in order of seniority with two of the hills on which Prague stands.

They rose and left silently in the order of their seniority.

Vogel spins a story of a political culture becoming slowly unbound by previous constraints like party loyalty or seniority.

"He's not as susceptible as he looks," Rose pronounced from her vantage-point of seniority.

seniority on the father's side gives excess of male offspring.

Word Value for seniority
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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