Seniority

Noun

 * 1) A measure of the amount of time a person has been a member of an organization, as compared to other members, and with an eye towards awarding privileges to those who have been members longer.
 * It's an old-fashioned company, with parking spaces and other perks doled out on the basis of seniority.

Related terms

 * senior

Thesaurus
aboriginality, accomplishment, age, ancien regime, ancientness, antiquity, ascendancy, atavism, authority, cobwebs of antiquity, consequence, deanship, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, eminence, excellence, favor, great age, greatness, hoary age, hoary eld, importance, incomparability, influence, influentialness, inimitability, inveteracy, lead, majority, moment, old age, old order, old style, oldness, one-upmanship, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, prestige, primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality, priority, privilege, prominence, rank, right-of-way, senility, skill, stature, success, superiority, transcendence, transcendency, venerableness, virtuosity, weight, weightiness

Etymology
< senyoryte: <  senioritas: <  senior:; see senior.

Translations

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