successionsuc‧ces‧sion /səkˈseʃən/ ●○○ AWL noun 
She won the championship four times in succession.in quick/rapid/close succession (=quickly one after the other) He fired two shots in quick succession.2a succession of something a number of people or things of the same kind, following, coming, or happening one after the other SYN stream: A succession of visitors came to the door.3[uncountable] the act of taking over an official job or position, or the right to be the next to take it: If the prince dies, the succession passes to his son.succession to the queen’s succession to the throne
WORD ORIGINsuccession
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French, Latin successio, from succedere; ➔ SUCCEEDEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Like many rich kids, Georgie was raised by a succession of underpaid nannies.
- The project has had a succession of legal problems.
- We lost four important games in succession.
- A succession of situations each one more impossible than the last, may be what will best serve you.
- His elder brother Edwin was next in succession to the baronetcy, but he was a total invalid.
- Increasingly, the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession.
- Next in succession came the dinner preparation.
- One of the prime differences between the systems is in the practicalities of succession.
- There followed a succession of minor criminal offences, mostly against youngsters with whom he shared lodgings.
- There is no clear succession, for example.
- Thus high office remains accessible to a relatively wide range of royal kin and commoners wield significant power over the succession.
Longman Language Activatora series of events, things, numbers, people etc
several things that happen one after the other: · What is the next number in the series -- 12, 24, 48, 96?series of: · There has been a series of accidents on the M25.· The orchestra is giving a series of concerts to raise money for charity.· Police smashed a major drugs ring after a series of dawn raids.
the order in which events or actions follow one another, or the order in which they are supposed to follow one another: · The keys have to be turned in a particular sequence to open the safe.sequence of: · The sequence of movements for this particular dance is quite difficult to learn.sequence of events: · The report detailed the sequence of events that led to the oil spill.in sequence: · The chairs are numbered in sequence.
a series of similar events that happen very close together, or a group of similar things that exist or are found very close together: · O'Neill had a string of successes with his first four plays.· a string of tiny islands off the coast of Florida· Jackson was imprisoned in 1934 for a string of sensational crimes.
a number of events, relationships, people etc following closely after each other, especially when it is bad that there have been so many of them: succession of: · The project has had a succession of legal problems.· Like many rich kids, Georgie was raised by a succession of underpaid nannies.in succession: · We lost four important games in succession.
also train of events British a series of events, especially a series in which each thing that happens causes the next one to happen: · The 6 month trial focused on the chain of events leading to the murder.· The book details the train of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War.
a long and almost continuous series of events, people, objects etc that follow closely after each other: stream of of: · Guides take the non-stop stream of visitors around the castle.in an endless stream (=continuously, in large numbers): · Refugees were pouring across the border in an endless stream.
also catalog American a series of failures, disasters etc that happen one after the other and never seem to stop: · The bombing is the latest addition to the catalogue of terrorist crimes.· The official report into the disaster points up a whole catalog of errors and oversights.
a planned process of medical treatment, consisting of a series of regular amounts of treatment, drugs etc over a fixed period: · Europeans usually need to have a course of injections before travelling to India.· The disease can be easily cured with a simple course of antibiotics.
happening or doing something in a series happening one after the other: · Successive nights without sleep make any new parent feel ready to quit.· Jackson became the first batter since Babe Ruth to hit three successive home runs in a single game.· Successive governments have failed to tackle the problem of international debt.
consecutive days, years etc come after one another, with no breaks in between: · The company has made a profit for seven consecutive years.· You must get a doctor's certificate if you're off work sick for more than three consecutive days.
happening immediately one after another in a series, especially in an unusually long series: · The temperatures was 40 degrees below zero for two weeks straight.· She is hoping to beat her personal record of 21 straight victories.
if something happens on a number of occasions, days, years etc in succession , it happens on each of those occasions, days, years etc, without a break: · She's won the championship four times in succession.· It's not advisable to plant wheat in the same field for more than two years in succession.
if a number of events happen one after the other or one after another , each one happens soon after the previous one: · One after another they got up and left the room.· He was so thirsty that he drank five glasses of water, one after the other.· She smoked nervously throughout the meeting, one cigarette after another.
done two or more times, one after another, without a break: · Last week I overslept three days in a row.· The Blazers have won 11 games in a row.
if you do something for the third time, fifth time etc running , you do it that number of times without a break: · This is the fourth time running you've been late.· Spender won the Cambridge Poetry Prize three years running.
two alternate actions, events, feelings etc are done in a fixed order, first one, then the other, then the first one again etc: · He worked alternate night and day shifts.· Italian cities have imposed alternate-day driving rules in an effort to reduce pollution.alternate Sundays/weekends etc (=first one Sunday or weekend, but not the next, then the next Sunday or weekend but not the next etc): · She visits her parents on alternate Sundays.
WORD SETSaccession, nounaccredited, adjectiveaide, nounambassador, nounapparatchik, nounarchduke, nounassemblyman, nounassemblywoman, nounattaché, nounbadge, nounborough council, nouncaliph, nounchamberlain, nounchancellery, nounchancellor, nounChancellor of the Exchequer, nounchieftain, nouncity fathers, nouncity planning, nouncivil servant, nounclerk, nounclerk of works, nounCllr, commissioner, nouncomptroller, nouncongressman, nouncongresswoman, nounconsul, nounconsulate, nouncoroner, nouncouncillor, nouncouncilman, nouncouncilwoman, nouncourtier, nouncrown, nouncrown, verbcrowned head, nounCrown Prince, nounCrown Princess, nounCustoms and Excise, noun-cy, suffixczar, nounczarina, noundeputy, noundictator, noundignitary, noundiplomat, noundiplomatic, adjectivediplomatic corps, noundiplomatic immunity, noundispatch box, noundispensation, noun-dom, suffixdossier, noundrug czar, nounducal, adjectiveduchess, nounduchy, nounduke, noundukedom, nounelder statesman, nounembassy, nounemirate, nounemissary, nounemperor, nounempress, nounEurocrat, nounfigurehead, nounForeign Office, the, governor, nounGovernor-General, noungovernorship, noungubernatorial, adjectivehack, nounHome Secretary, nounimpeach, verbinaugurate, verbincumbency, nounincumbent, nounkhalif, nounkhan, nounlegate, nounlegation, nounlegislator, nounlocal council, nounlord, nounLord, nounmandarin, nounmarshal, nounmayor, nounmayoralty, nounmayoress, nounmember, nounMember of Parliament, nounMEP, nounMI5, nounMI6, nounminister, nounministerial, adjectiveminister of state, nounmission, nounmole, nounmonarch, nounmonitor, nounmotorcade, nounMP, nounNo. 10, occupy, verb-ocrat, suffixoffice, nounoffice holder, nounofficer, nounofficial, nounofficial, adjectiveofficialdom, nounofficialese, nounoverlord, nounpalace, nounpatriarchal, adjectivepatrician, adjectivePharaoh, nounplenipotentiary, nounPM, nounpost, verbposting, nounpotentate, nounPPS, nounprefect, nounpremier, nounpres., presidency, nounpresident, nounpresident-elect, nounpresidential, adjectivepress secretary, nounpretender, nounPrime Minister, nounprince, nounprince consort, nounprincess, nounproconsul, nounproconsulate, nounProvost, nounpublic servant, nounquango, nounqueen, nounqueenly, adjectiveQueen Mother, nounrajah, nounred tape, nounreeve, nounreign, nounreign, verbreshuffle, nounroyal, adjectiveroyal, nounroyalty, nounruler, nounsecretary, nounsenator, nounShah, nounsheriff, nounshogun, nounsovereign, nounsoviet, nounstatesman, nounsuccession, nounsultan, nounsultana, nountechnocrat, nountown clerk, nountown council, nountribune, nountriumvirate, nountroika, nountsar, nountsarina, nountzar, nountzarina, nounundersecretary, nounvice-president, nounviceroy, nounvizier, nounVP, nounwalkabout, nounwatchdog, nounwhip, nounWhite House, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Three bombs went off in quick succession (=quickly, one after the other).
(=quickly one after the other) He fired two shots in quick succession.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He fired two shots in quick succession. (=several clicks one after another)· A series of loud clicks came from the car's engine.
(=the system by which an important position or property is passed from a parent to their children, and then to their children etc) Henry the Eighth wanted a male heir to ensure the Tudor line of succession.
Henry the Eighth wanted a male heir to ensure the Tudor line of succession. Three bombs went off in quick succession (=quickly, one after the other). (=quickly, one after the other)· Pictures of a man were flashed upon the screen in rapid succession.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· It has survived an endless succession of changes and locations, some of which no longer exist.
· If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes, we see what can only be called evolutionary change.· It involved a long succession of thinkers at different times and places.
· Another ex-Dragon Steve Clark then forced Wood to make two good saves in quick succession.· Two harpoons are usually thrown in quick succession.· Double-click - A mouse procedure where the left-hand mouse button is pressed twice in quick succession.· Her neediness drove her into marriage at a young age, and she gave birth to four children in quick succession.· I entered the woods just as three mortar explosions occurred in quick succession, somewhere in the trees a short distance away.· Events moved in quick succession during these months.· Steelwork and the cladding followed in quick succession.· Three moves followed in quick succession.
· That was the first wonderful release, others were to follow in rapid succession.· There, during an eight-year period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, large trees began dying in rapid succession.· Following him, there was a rapid succession of occupants.· When a user browses the Web, objects are retrieved in rapid succession from often widely dispersed servers.· Increasingly, the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession.· I stood fearfully against a board as in rapid succession the knives flashed through the air and encircled my body.· Female red-legged partridges and Temminck's stints produce two clutches in very rapid succession.
· And great engineering heights would be scaled in the whole succession of Andean railways.· A whole succession of prairie branches was built to develop settlement and to tap the furthest reaches of the grain-growing areas.· It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed, dormer-windowed, gabled buildings.
VERB· Arguably unlike Chlothild in 511 and certainly unlike Fredegund, Aregund may have played no part in ensuring her son's succession.
· That was the first wonderful release, others were to follow in rapid succession.· There followed a succession of minor criminal offences, mostly against youngsters with whom he shared lodgings.· Three moves followed in quick succession.· There followed a succession of delicious Delhi kebabs rounded off with fruit chaat: a kind of spicy fruit salad.· Emptiness and fullness follow one another in succession, moving from above to below, from the heavenly to the terrestrial.· At Devonshire Square, toastracks follow in quick succession!
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- It's not advisable to plant wheat in the same field for more than two years in succession.
- She's won the championship four times in succession.
- The U.S. women have won 11 international softball titles in succession.
- But the latest in a succession of applications to turn Oxmoor Farm at Heighington into a hotel and restaurant was refused.
- Careful listening has meant a succession of books strikingly different from each other.
- First impressions were favourable, as we rounded the last of a succession of hairpin bends.
- Following this confrontation, a succession of crises seriously undermined the Mercian position further.
- Its unintended effect was also to crush a succession of much less well-prepared Republican hopefuls before a single vote had been cast.
- The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.
- The president, if he chooses, can delay the law in a succession of six-month blocks.
- When the burden of a total meaning is shared by a succession of words, the load may shift.
WORD FAMILYnounsuccesssuccessionsuccessoradjectivesuccessful ≠ unsuccessfulsuccessiveverbsucceedadverbsuccessfully ≠ unsuccessfully
1in succession happening one after the other without anything different happening in between: She won the championship four times in succession.in quick/rapid/close succession (=quickly one after the other) He fired two shots in quick succession.2a succession of something a number of people or things of the same kind, following, coming, or happening one after the other SYN stream: A succession of visitors came to the door.3[uncountable] the act of taking over an official job or position, or the right to be the next to take it: If the prince dies, the succession passes to his son.succession to the queen’s succession to the throne