order of seniority

collocation in English

meaningsoforderandseniority

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order
noun
uk
/ˈɔː.dər/us
/ˈɔːr.dɚ/
a request to make, supply, or deliver food ...
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seniority
noun[U]
uk
/ˌsiː.niˈɒr.ə.ti/us
/siːˈnjɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the advantage that you get by working for a company for a ...
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(Definition oforderandseniorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In these circumstances, mills resorted to direct recruitment, inevitably subverting theorderofseniorityor even the occupational categories so crucial to the procedures of the employment exchange.
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After that, we come, inorderofseniority, to 104 viscounts, 24 bishops and 864 barons and baronesses.
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No right to appointment in strictorderofseniorityhas ever been recognised.
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It made special provisions for theorderofseniorityof the original and legitimated children.
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These allowances have for some years past been awarded strictly inorderofseniority.
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Chief petty officer writers are placed on the roster for promotion to warrant rank inorderofseniorityas chief petty officer writer.
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Theorderofseniorityin which deaths are presumed to have occurred is the order in which, if nature took its normal course, the parties would be expected to die.
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Theorderofseniorityof those holding acting appointments in these grades is determined generally by their seniority in their confirmed rank of foremen of works.
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That of course has meant a series of consequential changes and people have been moved up, not according to any mechanicalorderofseniority, but according to merit.
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In cases in which this doctrine applies, the persons who have died are deemed to have died in orderofseniority—that is, the oldest first and the youngest last.
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It is said that judges tile into the dining room inorderofseniorityand the junior judges are very much under the sway of their seniors.
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Henceforth, batteries were designated in a single alphabetical sequence inorderofseniorityfrom date of formation.
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Councillors are elected individually by an absolute majority of votes, with the incumbent councillors defending their seats in descendingorderofseniority.
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The remaining twenty-one seats are filled inorderofseniorityby consecration.
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The title abstract usually gives theorderofseniorityfor the deeds related to the tract being surveyed and should be used if available.
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Within each state, senators are listed inorderofseniority.
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The new designations were inorderofseniority.
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All will then be allowed to drink, following theorderofseniority.
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His daughters known by name inorderofseniority: 1.
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In the absence of children, inheritance passed to collateral relatives, usually males, inorderofseniorityof their lines of descent.
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