Betekenis van succeed In het Nederlands

• 0 If you succeed, you achieve something that you have been aiming for, and if a plan or piece of work succeeds, it has the results that you wanted:

  • She's been trying to pass her driving test for six years and she's finally succeeded.

  • You need to be pretty tough to succeed in the property world.

  • The campaign has certainly succeeded in raising public awareness of the issue.

  • humorous Richard succeeded in offending (= managed unintentionally to offend) just about everybody in the room!

• 1 to take an official job or position after someone else:

  • He succeeded his father as editor of the paper.

  • When the Queen dies, her eldest son will succeed to the throne.

  • In the weeks that succeeded, five more patients showed similar symptoms.

  • Almost from its beginnings, New York has produced succeeding generations of intellectuals.

• 2 to achieve something that you have been aiming for, or (of a plan or piece of work) to have the desired results:

  • She’s been trying to pass her driving test for years and she finally succeeded.

  • He succeeded in building the business into one the leaders in its field.

• 3 to take the place of another person or thing:

  • [ T ] Kamen was named company chairman, succeeding Robert Schwartz, who is retiring after 44 years.

• 4 if you succeed, you achieve something that you have been trying to do or get, and if a plan or a piece of work succeeds, it has the results that you wanted:

  • succeed in sth He is determined to succeed in the property market.

  • succeed in doing sth The new exchange rate succeeded in bringing inflation down.

• 5 to take an official job or position after someone else:

  • succeed sb as sth Karl Smith will succeed him as chief executive.