Betekenis van junior In het Nederlands

• 0 someone who has a job at a low level within an organization:

  • an office junior

• 1 a student at a junior school

  • Lewis has just moved up to the juniors.

• 2 a young person below a particular age who is involved in an activity, especially sport:

  • Saturday morning sessions are for juniors only.

  • My brother is five years my junior.

  • My sister is my junior by three years (= three years younger than me).

• 3 used to refer to your son:

  • Come on, Junior, time for bed.

• 4 low or lower in rank:

  • I object to being told what to do by someone junior to me.

  • a junior doctor/partner

• 5 connected with or involving young people below a particular age:

  • junior orchestra

  • Junior members are not permitted to compete.

  • Sammy Davis, Jr.

• 6 less advanced, or lower in rank:

  • the junior varsity

  • Alfredo is a junior partner in the law firm.

• 7 younger:

  • He was born in April, so he’s three months my junior (= he is three months younger).

• 8 a student in the third year of a program of study in a college, university, or high school (= a school for students aged 14 to 18)

• 9 used to describe someone of a low rank, or of a lower rank in relation to others, in an organization:

  • junior role/position

  • a junior doctor/barrister/executive

  • junior ministers/senators

  • junior to sb They promoted a man who was junior to me and made him my boss.

• 10 a junior stock market is one in which shares of smaller or less known companies are traded:

  • The investment company is planning to raise £370 million through a flotation on AIM, London's junior exchange.

• 11 an employee of a low rank, or a lower rank in relation to others:

  • Directors' rewards have increased exponentially compared with those of their juniors.