Synonym: order, progression, sequence, series. Similar words: ecological succession, success, successful, successfully, cession, recession, secession, concession. Meaning: [sək'seʃn] 
n. 1. a following of one thing after another in time 2. a group of people or things arranged or following in order 3. the action of following in order 4. (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 5. acquisition of property by descent or by will.
n. 1. a following of one thing after another in time 2. a group of people or things arranged or following in order 3. the action of following in order 4. (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 5. acquisition of property by descent or by will. 
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61. Spurred by her early success, she went on to write four more novels in rapid succession.
62. Steelwork and the cladding followed in quick succession.
63. A succession of other polls have shown similar results.
64. Three more followed, in quick succession.
65. Two harpoons are usually thrown in quick succession.
66. The planned succession was previously announced.
67. Following him, there was a rapid succession of occupants.
68. Three moves followed in quick succession.
69. Next in succession came the dinner preparation.
70. Events moved in quick succession during these months.
71. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Jane Austen 
72. The hand is a strong one, and the sentiments, emphasizing the apostolic succession of bishops, are magisterially expressed.
73. Careful listening has meant a succession of books strikingly different from each other.
74. Jacobitism Not everyone was reconciled to the breach in the succession that occurred with the Glorious Revolution.
75. The institution of bishops he defends as convenient and of long standing, rather than as based on Apostolic succession.
76. According to some sources Goh was not Lee's first choice for the succession; at least one other minister reportedly declined the post.
77. In 1824 they removed to a more commodious place at Lower Hareston and let Hareston Manor to a succession of tenant farmers.
78. Two features of this succession on urban wasteland are particularly interesting.
79. I entered the woods just as three mortar explosions occurred in quick succession,[http://sentencedict.com/succession.html] somewhere in the trees a short distance away.
80. The band was exhausted from playing a succession of one-night stands around the country.
81. Another ex-Dragon Steve Clark then forced Wood to make two good saves in quick succession.
82. The top team A particularly important determinant of successful executive succession is the orientation of the members of the top team.
83. In his acceptance of the pope's lordship, John ensured the protection of the monarchy and of the succession.
84. Do, Aristotle asked, all the parts of the embryo come into existence together, or do they appear in succession?
85. Problems were now far more likely to arise in determining the rights of succession among competing members of a princely family.
86. It is a succession or flow of events to make a coherent whole.
87. The issue on which these tensions mainly centred was the succession to the caliphate.
88. Exiting edit menus Move the pointer to a blank area of the screen and press fire twice in quick succession.
89. The prime cause, they believe, was a succession of dry summers in the mid-1970s.
90. I watched with growing amazement a succession of beautiful old pieces of furniture go into the cottage.
More similar words: ecological succession, success, successful, successfully, cession, recession, secession, concession, accessible, inaccessible, succeed, session, succeed in, compression, aggression, suppression, confession, digression, oppression, profession, expression, depression, impression, professional, congressional, transgression, access, excessive, necessity, recessive.