Senior vs. Supervisor — What's the Difference?

Of or for older or more experienced people

A supervisor, or also known as foreman, boss, overseer, facilitator, monitor, area coordinator, or sometimes gaffer, is the job title of a low level management position that is primarily based on authority over a worker or charge of a workplace. A supervisor can also be one of the most senior in the staff at the place of work, such as a Professor who oversees a PhD dissertation.

High or higher in rank or status

A person who supervises a person or an activity.

A person who is a specified number of years older than someone else

One who supervises.

Abbr. Sr. Of or being the older of two, especially the older of two persons having the same name, as father and son.

One who is in charge of a particular department or unit, as in a governmental agency or school system.

Of or relating to senior citizens.

One who is an elected administrative officer in certain US counties and townships.

Being in a position, rank, or grade above others of the same set or class

(management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.

Having precedence in making certain decisions.

A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.

Of or relating to the fourth and last year of high school or college

(US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.

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.

(computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.

A person who is older than another

One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.

A senior citizen.

A spectator; a looker-on.

One that is of a higher position, rank, or grade than another in the same set or class.

One who supervises or has charge and direction of

A student in the fourth year of high school or college.

A program that controls the execution of other programs

Older; superior

Higher in rank, dignity, or office.

(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.

An old person.

Someone older than someone else (with possessive).

Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.

An elder or presbyter in the early Church.

Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.

A final-year student at a high school or university.

More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.

A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.

An aged person; an older.

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.

An undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

A person who is older than you are

Older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service;

Used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college;

Advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);