Usually means: Individuals or entities that came before.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word predecessors:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. predecessors: Merriam-Webster
  2. predecessors: Collins English Dictionary
  3. predecessors: Vocabulary.com
  4. Predecessors, predecessor's, predecessors: Wordnik
  5. predecessors: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. predecessors: Wiktionary
  7. predecessors: Dictionary.com
  8. predecessors: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. predecessors: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. predecessors: Legal dictionary

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  1. predecessors: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (predecessor)

noun:  One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
noun:  A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
noun:  (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
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