seniority rank

They do not understand the issue of seniority rank.

He was by all accounts an ambitious engineer, eager to move up the seniority ranks and serve on the better-paying, more prestigious passenger trains.

Party leaders had agreed to credit his past service in setting his House seniority rank if he won, and they offered to help pay his campaign debts from the Senate contest.

Some still remember their Drexel seniority rank precisely and offer that information voluntarily: 15th to be hired in corporate finance in New York, said one; 10th in trading in Beverly Hills, said another.