succession
suc‧ces‧sion AC /səkˈseʃən/
noun
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.
2. a succession of something a number of people or things of the same kind, following, coming, or happening one after the other
SYN stream:
A succession of visitors came to the door.
3. [uncountable] the act of taking over an official job or position, or the right to be the next to take it ⇨ accession:
If the prince dies, the succession passes to his son.
succession to
the queen’s succession to the throne
suc‧ces‧sion AC /səkˈseʃən/
noun Word Family: noun: success, succession, successor; adjective: successful ≠ unsuccessful, successive; verb: succeed; adverb: successfully ≠ unsuccessfully
1. in succession happening one after the other without anything different happening in between: in quick/rapid/close succession (=quickly one after the other)
2. a succession of something a number of people or things of the same kind, following, coming, or happening one after the other
SYN stream:
3. [uncountable] the act of taking over an official job or position, or the right to be the next to take it ⇨ accession:
succession to