amemberof agroupofpeople,companies,countries, etc. that isinvolvedincontrollingsomething but that has lessinfluenceorexperiencethanothersin thegroup:Severalforeigncompanieswereinvitedtostayon asjuniorpartnersin thepetroleumfirm.Thegovernmentcollapsedafter thejuniorpartnerin thecoalitionpulledout.Comparesenior partner(Definition ofjunior partnerfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofjunior partner
junior partnerThere is no senior partner andjuniorpartnerin our relations, he said.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His father had been ajuniorpartneruntil 1858 and worked until his death in 1889 at age 85.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He was then promotedjuniorpartnerbefore he left the law firm to seek public office in 2004.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He rose to become ajuniorpartner, and amassed a considerable fortune.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Labour was ajuniorpartnerin the wartime coalition from 19401945.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He worked his way up from collector to window decorator to buyer, andjuniorpartnerin his twenties.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1813 he joined, asjuniorpartner, a banking business on which his father entered.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He had only a primary education and as a young man worked in shops, eventually becoming ajuniorpartnerin a softgoods firm.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He asks the partners to collateralize the line of credit, with an investment of $100,000 from each senior partner, and $50,000 from eachjuniorpartner.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The party continued in the government as ajuniorpartneruntil the 2003 parliamentary election, after which it spent four years in the opposition.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/junior-partner##
