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: --
humorous Richard succeeded in offending (= managed unintentionally to offend) just about everybody in the room!
The campaign has certainly succeeded in raising public awareness of the issue.
You need to be pretty tough to succeed in the property world.
She's been trying to pass her driving test for six years and she's finally succeeded.
1 to take an official job or position after someone else: --
2 to achieve something that you have been aiming for, or (of a plan or piece of work) to have the desired results: --
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: --
5 to take an official job or position after someone else: --
I argue in the next two sections that two of the putative mechanisms do not succeed.
He succeeded in reuniting tradition and modernity, and in making measure useful and meaningful once again.
According to this notion, which is nowadays referred to as computable randomness, a sequence is computably random if no computable martingale succeeds on it.
This observation provides us with a simple mechanism for filtering out unifications that cannot possibly succeed.
During the succeeding reunion, the infant stilled against the parent with eyes dazed for over 1 full min, and was, of course, judged disorganized.
This rule may succeed for some destinations, but not for those that have no museums.
Such extended longevity means that two generations in the family exist, often independently, for long periods, which delays the transfer of wealth between succeeding generations.
The potential number of nation-states may be higher given the existence of numerous unsatisfied nationalisms which may succeed, one day.