The phrase "senior relative" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an older or more experienced family member. Example: It is customary for the senior relatives to sit at the head of the table during family gatherings.
Martin Amis had it out with Cervantes ("Reading 'Don Quixote' can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies").
In many cases, family members are not equipped to manage caring for a senior relative, so hiring an in-home caregiver is the only alternative.
Separately, a healthy senior relative may leave a home to heirs still under mortgage, or there could be a significant tax debt.
Less than 50% of the participants from both provinces are living with their partners alone, for less disturbance from senior relatives.
Selection into courses has no effect on legacy rank as seniors relative to the second set of columns.
They are weighing various proposals that would extend the due date of the debt in return for various concessions, like stock in the company, a partial payment of what is owed them, or a more senior position relative to other creditors, one bondholder said.
During the first century of their rule they generally followed the custom (held over from the late Rurik rulers) of passing the throne to the tsar's eldest son or, if he had no son, to his closest senior male relative.
Capitalizing on the repeated cross-sectional data of the China sample in the World Values Survey, this study shows that (1) The senior population, relative to the younger counterpart, attaches greater importance to religion.
Azān (Arabic: adhān) refers to the words of the Muslim call to prayer which are customarily spoken into the newborn baby's ear by a senior male relative, or an imam (Muslim priest) as a marker of Muslim identity.
This suggests that waiting for the arrival of a senior male relative or an imam is 'customary' rather than a religious requirement, a point that may be particularly relevant for cases in which doctors predict the baby will not survive.
The female equivalent of mep'e is dedop'ali ("queen"), which was applied to queens consort or the king's closest, senior female relatives.
