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succession Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 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.
- She had her first three children in rapid succession.
- This is the seventh year in succession that they've won the tournament.
- 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?
1 a series of things coming one after another:
- [ C ] a succession of scandals
- [ U ] In rapid succession he lost his job, his wife, and his health.
- [ U ] fml At that time, the secretary of state followed the vice president in line of presidential succession (= the order of taking over a position of authority).
2 a number of similar people or events that exist or happen one after another:
- a succession of sth The company has been involved in a succession of accounting scandals.
- They employ their seasonal workers on a succession of fixed-term contracts.
3 the process by which someone takes an official position or job after someone else has been doing it:
- He was elected Chairman in succession to Brooke.
- a succession announcement/arrangement/issue
4 happening one after another:
- Crops have failed for the third year in succession.
- The company lost two chief executives in quick succession.

The ages of these inferred foreign successions, which lack fossils, have been a matter of debate.
In order to clarify the patterns, we focus in this case on headship successions following upon the death or retirement of the previous head.
However, carbon-isotope trends and values in the various successions are remarkably consistent.
The quartzose sandstone is most abundant in the east of the area, whereas contemporaneous successions in the west are dominated by redeposited carbonate.
The contrasting volcanogenic successions developed in a more distal off-margin setting.
The cyclicity of lithofacies in genetically related successions helps to understand the changes in environment through time.
Only half of the successions were by natural sons.
In general, the majority (86 per cent) of successions were by male kin from the existing household.