Senior vs. Specialist — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Senior and Specialist
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Definitions
Senior
Of or for older or more experienced people
Senior citizens
Specialist
A person who concentrates primarily on a particular subject or activity; a person highly skilled in a specific and restricted field
The study was undertaken by a market-research specialist
He is a specialist in psychometric testing
Senior
High or higher in rank or status
The people senior to me in my department
He is a senior Finance Ministry official
Specialist
Possessing or involving detailed knowledge or study of a restricted topic
You may require specialist financial advice
Senior
A person who is a specified number of years older than someone else
She was only two years his senior
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Specialist
One who is devoted to a particular occupation or branch of study or research
An antiquarian who is a specialist in 17th-century Dutch ceramics.
Senior
Abbr. Sr. Of or being the older of two, especially the older of two persons having the same name, as father and son.
Specialist
A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery, especially one who is certified by a board of physicians
A specialist in oncology.
Senior
Of or relating to senior citizens.
Specialist
Any of several noncommissioned ranks in the US Army that correspond to that of corporal through sergeant first class.
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Senior
Being in a position, rank, or grade above others of the same set or class
A senior officer.
The senior ship in the battle group.
Specialist
A species with narrow habitat or food requirements
Specialists that feed only on carrion.
Senior
Having precedence in making certain decisions.
Specialist
(British) Specialised, involving detailed knowledge of a restricted topic.
Senior
Of or relating to the fourth and last year of high school or college
Our senior class.
Specialist
Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
Senior
Relating to or being a class of corporate debt that has priority with respect to interest and principal over other classes of debt and equity by the same issuer.
Specialist
(medicine) A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
Senior
A person who is older than another
She is eight years my senior.
Specialist
Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
Senior
A senior citizen.
Specialist
An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.
The tree Lepidothamnus laxifolius is a high alpine specialist found in high-altitude bog communities and in scrub.
Senior
One that is of a higher position, rank, or grade than another in the same set or class.
Specialist
A stenotopic species.
Senior
A student in the fourth year of high school or college.
Specialist
One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.
Senior
Older; superior
Senior citizen
Specialist
An expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning
Senior
Higher in rank, dignity, or office.
Senior member; senior counsel
Specialist
Practices one branch of medicine
Senior
(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
Senior
An old person.
Senior
Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
He was four years her senior.
Senior
Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
Senior
An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
Senior
Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
Senior
A final-year student at a high school or university.
Senior
More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
Senior
Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
Senior
A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
Senior
One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
Senior
An aged person; an older.
Each village senior paused to scan,And speak the lovely caravan.
Senior
One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; - originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.
Senior
An undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation
Senior
A person who is older than you are
Senior
Older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service;
Senior officer
Senior
Used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college;
The senior prom
Senior
Advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);
Aged members of the society
Elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper
Senior citizen