0 to receive money, a house, etc. from someone after they have died: --
1 to be born with the same physical or mental characteristics as one of your parents or grandparents: --
2 to begin to have responsibility for a problem or situation that previously existed or belonged to another person: --
3 to receive money, property, or possessions from someone after the person has died: --
4 to receive money, property, or assets from someone who has died: --
5 if you inherit a situation, problem, department, etc., you become responsible for dealing with it or managing it: --
inherit sth from sb/sth When he took office, he inherited a deficit budget from the previous administration.
The report showed that he inherited a $5.6 million revenue shortfall when he took over the department.
Concepts are organised into a strict is-a hierarchy, so that properties are inherited from a class to its subclasses.
He also inherited the preference for a tough monetary stance to support sterling.
In inheriting the value frames of elite rhetoric, citizens may end up endorsing values from both sides of the partisan divide.
Although eye number is inherited, it is not heritable.
With land inherited within a matrilineage, the members of the heir's lineage segment have priority, rather than his children.
Multiple inheritance is permitted, so attributes and their values can be inherited from multiple parents.
More significant was the growth of his rural estate : of the 155,000 hectares that he left at his death, only 60,000 had been inherited.
The electoral culture inherited by the revolutionaries made no provision for declared candidates and contemporaries were equally wary of canvassing for votes.