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词汇 successor
释义 successor
noun[ C ]
uk /səkˈses.ər/ us /səkˈses.ɚ/
C1
someone or something that comes after another person or thing: 继任者,接替者;继承人;接替的事物
The university is seeking a successor to its vice chancellor, who retires this spring.大学在寻找一位继任者,接替将于今年春天退休的校长。
This range of computers is very fast, but their successors will be even faster.这个系列的电脑速度很快,但它的换代产品速度会更快。
Traditionally, the president designates his or her successor.按照传统,总统要选定其接班人。
It remains to be seen whom the chairman will anoint as his successor.董事长将指定何人作为其接班人,还需拭目以待。
The hunt is on for a successor to Sir James Gordon.
His name was mooted as a possible successor.作为可能的接班人,他的名字被提出讨论。
The former leader now has to watch his successor unpicking much of what he strived so hard to achieve.
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successor | American Dictionary


successor
noun[ C ]
us/səkˈses·ər/
someone or something that follows and takes the job, place, or position that was held by another:
The company will announce the appointment of a successor to its retiring chairman at the next board meeting.

successor | Business English


successor
noun[ C ]
uk /səkˈsesər/us
someone or something that comes after another person or thing:
successor to sb/sthShe has been appointed successor to the retiring chief executive.
Network Rail is the successor to Railtrack and runs lines and signalling.

Examples of successor


successor
Traversal is performed by selecting a node from the task pool, visiting that node, and then adding its successor nodes to the pool.
The left successor node is visited next, revealing three additional nodes.
In spite of not formally owning the land, crown tenants enjoyed a lifetime right of occupation and the possibility to choose a successor.
Statistical mechanics is the successor theory to thermodynamics, the science of work and heat.
He retired on pension in 1899, handing over an efficient service to his white successor.
Introspective and unimaginative, the sun king's two successors did nothing to arrest this process.
It would shape the very contours of control and influence in the divided successor states.
As a result, processes on the left path are excluded from the successor set of the warm rolling component, and the right path is chosen.
Once "the people have spoken," the successor's authority is established and any further contest is illegitimate.
It failed in its own terms, through his successors' inability to maintain the constant attendance of the nobility upon the monarch.
But this time they should be more freely usable in the sense that the successor states can be described by multiple applications of them.
Upon that element his successors have now been signally defeated.
Thus, the ability of the president to hand-pick his successor was considerably diminished, as his most of his cabinet members were not in the running.
The image we are presented with is one of successor generations ' moving across ' historical time.
Early platforms are far more general than their successors, in some instances having a content too insubstantial to analyse.
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Collocations withsuccessor


successor

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immediate successor
Furthermore, since self-concatenation is value increasing, each element in the sequence is better than its immediatesuccessor.
obvious successor
This ship will be something over 10,000 tons: and an obvious successor to the cruiser.
From the
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possible successor
Obviously the cost of a possiblesuccessor varies between the options and is a factor in choosing between them.
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