senior vice president
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈsiː.njər vaɪs ˈprɛzɪdənt/
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vicepresidente ejecutivo
- Editor's note: James Lindsay is senior vice president and director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
- senior vice president and general counsel
- senior vice president of corporate affairs
- senior vice president for technology
And Rick Dempsey, my good friend now who's the chief, I think his title is senior vice president of character voices at Disney.
- And Rick Dempsey, my good friend now who's the chief, I think his title is senior vice president of character voices at Disney.
- Don't you dare touch me until you hear that ping, baby, because I'm the senior vice president of West Coast Lake Tonight programming.
- And you go, that doesn't exist, then you're not the senior vice president because you're who are you senior to?
Examples
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Many small colleges have the benefit of a unique niche, said Hal Hartley, senior vice president at the Council of Independent Colleges.
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Heric is the senior vice president for business affairs at St. John's.
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As of yesterday, I am the senior vice president in charge of corporate publicity.
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By day, I work at a public relations firm as its senior vice president of digital integration.
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John C. Mihm is a senior vice president of technology and project development for Phillips Petroleum Co.
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Also, they have hired David Demartini, which is kind of scary because he was the senior vice president at Electronics Arts.
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John G. Voeller is senior vice president, chief knowledge officer, and chief technology officer for Black & Veatch.
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For 30 years, he was with Sargent & Lundy, retiring as a senior vice president.
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"Tonight's games will be played," Tim Frank, the N.B.A.'s senior vice president for communications, told the New York Times.
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As senior vice president, I oversee multiple departments to ensure smooth operations.
Synonyms
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5.3
A senior manager who leads major company divisions and reports to the CEO
How Senior
- US
355
3.0
- US
29
5.3
31
3.9
352
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is fully compositional: 'senior' (higher-ranking) modifies 'vice president' (a deputy or second-in-command president-level executive), so 'senior vice president' straightforwardly denotes a higher-ranking vice president. This corporate-title structure is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The term senior vice president comes from a simple image: vice means 'in place of' or 'assistant', and senior means 'higher in rank'. So the senior vice president is the top deputy among several vice presidents, which is why the title means the highest-ranking vice president.