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1. Coming after or following
    
2. (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
   - future, next

1. Attain success or reach a desired goal
   "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"
   - win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
    
2. Be the successor (of)
   "Will Charles succeed to the throne?"
   - come after, follow

See also: back-to-back, consecutive, ensuing, following, in line, incoming, next, postmortem, subsequent, succeeder, succession, successive, successor, temporal relation, timing, undermentioned

Antonym: fail, precede, preceding

Encyclopedia: Succeed