succession
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
A group of people or things arranged or following in order.
polysemousFFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012
Senses
Wordset Dictionary
acquisition of property by descent or by will
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the action of following in order
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a following of one thing after another in time
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a group of people or things arranged or following in order
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(ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
Classifications
Entity Type
Process72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- chronological sequencechronological successionecological successionsequencesuccessivenesstaking over
- alternatephrasing
- Succession
- plural
- successions
- possessive
- succession's
- pluralpossessive
- successions'