See Also: Succession(medicine)
succession(dictionary)
Succession(money)
succession(dictionary)
SUCCESSION, com(law)
succession (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
RAPPORT A SUCCESSION(law)
intestate succession(encyclopedia)
faunal succession, law of(encyclopedia)
Spanish Succession, War of the(encyclopedia)

succession (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin successio, from succedere; SUCCEED]
in succession
happening one after the other without anything different happening in between
::She won the championship four times in succession.
in quick/rapid/close succession
(=quickly one after the other)
::He fired two shots in quick succession.
a succession of sth
a number of people or things of the same kind following, coming or happening one after the other
::A succession of visitors came to the door.
[U] the act of taking over an official job or position, or the right to be the next to take it
-see also accession accession
::If the prince dies, the succession passes to his son.
succession to
::the queen's succession to the throne