1A member of a group who has less power or influence than other members.
‘the Greens are the junior partner in the ruling coalition’
‘He should know better that our country will never agree to become anyone's poodle or junior partner.’
‘As the junior partner in the Coalition, the party is more comfortable with not always getting its own way.’
‘The United Kingdom is the junior partner in terms of scale, but sometimes leads in specialized areas.’
‘Even where the woman works, she tends to remain the junior partner.’
‘He was a close friend of Mozart, and the Salzburg genius paid close attention to his junior partner's budding career.’
‘In 1933, Mussolini saw Hitler as a junior partner in the relationship between the two dictators.’
‘Britain had no experience in wars of this type and remained junior partner to France in a war fought on French soil.’
‘Nurses have often felt (and sometimes been treated) like junior partners in the health care field.’
‘But Stevens shows that home schooling is a womans enterprise, in which men are usually junior partners.’
‘The unions with strong communist influence were treated as junior partners - they were in every respect controlled by the party.’
1.1A junior member of a business partnership.
‘she became a junior partner in a Glasgow general practice’
‘Having kept the firm running smoothly for 13 years, she deserves to be made a junior partner on those merits.’
‘She was a junior partner at one of Silicon Valley's most powerful venture capital firms.’
‘In a sign of the competitiveness of the industry, he said of the 24 junior partners the firm has taken on during his tenure, only five were promoted.’
‘To get that time, he negotiated with his junior partners a cut in pay in exchange for Fridays off.’
‘The law firm was represented by the two junior partners, Gardiner and Reed.’
‘Local business groups have often benefited directly from privatization, sometimes on their own and sometimes as junior partners of firms based abroad.’
‘I'm a junior partner at a law firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions.’
‘Smith, a junior partner, misappropriated large amounts of money standing to the credit of his solicitors' firm's client account.’
‘By sheer dint of merit, hard work and devotion to his chosen profession, he was taken in as junior partner of the prestigious firm.’
‘Not all corporations are necessarily created equal in terms of their philosophy, and they don't all provide the same value to their junior partners.’
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