successionnoun
uk/səkˈseʃ.ən/us/səkˈseʃ.ən/[ S ] a number of similar events or people that happen, exist, etc. after each other:
A succession of scandals and revelations has undermined the government over the past year.
Life was just an endless succession of parties and dinners.
in succession
happening one after another:
She had her first three children in rapid succession.
This is the seventh year in succession that they've won the tournament.
[ U ] a process in which someone automatically takes an official position or job after someone else:
His divorce will not prevent the Prince of Wales's succession to the throne.
Who comes after the vice-president in the presidential line of succession?
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Order and sequence - general words
- alphabetize
- back end
- back end
- be a chapter of accidents idiom
- catalogue
- ladder
- litany
- merry-go-round
- next
- nth
- penultimate
- run
- running
- second 1
- sequential
- series
- thirdly
- timeline
- train
- vice versa
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