succeeder

noun

Definition of succeedernext
as in successor

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  1. successor
  2. inheritor
  3. claimant
  4. heir apparent
  5. representative
  6. heir
  7. legatee
  8. beneficiary
Noun
  • Then, in 1976, Georgia’s Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford, the Midwestern successor — alert Jon Ossoff and JD Vance!
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • His successor, Ali Nasir Muhammad, instituted a far less dogmatic political and economic order.
    — Manfred W. Wenner All, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of successor
Noun
  • Eric Bauza, the contemporary inheritor of Mel Blanc’s legacy at Looney Tunes and a three-time Emmy winner, is dead at 46.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The bodybuilders in Mustapha’s focus are the inheritors of that model, using their Hulk-like muscles to exert temporary power over homegrown overlords who keep them in a kind of class subjugation.
    — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of inheritor
Noun
  • Woodward had represented several would-be claimants to the fund, a fact that prompted a federal judge in Florida to rebuke him in a scathing court ruling.
    — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The timetable sets out when 3M must fund the settlement, but does not specify when individual claimants will receive their money.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of claimant
Noun
  • The company has no public succession plan, and Huang has no obvious heir apparent.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2026
  • At age 44, the celebrity high school coach is about to come to Raleigh, bringing along his son Gunner as the team’s heir apparent, four-star quarterback.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of heir apparent
Noun
  • On Wednesday evening, representatives for Ford Racing told The Times that Muniz had been released from the hospital.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Drones bring battlefield medicine Wang Jianqi, a representative of Air Force Medical University, described the system in a report on Wednesday.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of representative
Noun
  • Michael’s only daughter says she has been forced to spend her own resources to ask the court to order a partial distribution of $600 million to the heirs’ family trust as the beneficiary of Jackson’s estate.
    — Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Ruiz-Picasso’s complaint was made on behalf of nine heirs to the artist.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of heir
Noun
  • The old immigrants are likely to remain—in the manner of the occasional Wasp legatee (Wagner, Lindsay) who poked in during the buoyant sixties—more visitors to wars over civic power than victors in them.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
Definition of legatee
Noun
  • Based on the size of Jed’s cattle ranch — conspicuously vast for a man on a government salary — the judge is likely also the scheme’s principal beneficiary.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The amount of his withdrawal is computed using the year specified in the Single Life Expectancy Table using the age of the beneficiary the year following the death of the IRA owner.
    — Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of beneficiary
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