Senior

  • 131senior notes — ➔ note1 * * * senior notes UK US noun [plural] FINANCE ► a type of loan that a company that goes bankrupt will pay back before others that are owed money have been paid …

    Financial and business terms

  • 132senior citizen — • She is a retired person, a senior citizen, you might say Barbara Pym, 1977. Senior citizen is a modern euphemism (first recorded in the 1930s) for an elderly person or old age pensioner, and is more politically correct because it refers… …

    Modern English usage