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

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

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Succession: Geography Dictionary
  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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