Usually means: Orderly transfer of position, authority.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. succession: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. succession: Merriam-Webster
  3. succession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. succession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. succession: Collins English Dictionary
  6. succession: Vocabulary.com
  7. Succession, succession: Wordnik
  8. succession: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. succession: Wiktionary
  10. succession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. succession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. succession: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. succession: Dictionary.com
  14. succession: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. succession: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Succession(ecology), Succession (TV series), Succession (biology), Succession (conflict), Succession (ecology), Succession: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Succession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. succession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. succession: Rhymezone
  20. Succession: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. succession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. succession: FreeDictionary.org
  23. succession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. succession: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Succession (geology): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. succession: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. succession: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. succession: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Succession: Investopedia
  10. succession: Legal dictionary
  11. Succession: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. succession: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. succession: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)
  4. Biodiversity (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See successional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act, process, or instance of succeeding:
noun:  An act of following in sequence.
noun:  A sequence of things in order.
noun:  A passing of royal powers.
noun:  A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
noun:  A race or series of descendants.
noun:  (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
noun:  A right to take possession.
noun:  (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

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