senior status

1. 1.

   higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

   Synonymsseniorityhigher statushigher rank

   Broaderhigh status

Questions about senior status

What does senior status mean?

senior status means "higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service".

What is another word for senior status?

Close synonyms include seniority, higher status, higher rank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is senior status a common word?

senior status is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.