Meaning & use
succeeding
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achieving an aim or attaining success
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After years of hard work, she is finally succeeding in her career.
The rule applies to this year and all succeeding years.
A note on using this word
From Latin 'succedere' (to come after, go under); its senses of 'achieving success' and 'coming next' both trace to this idea of coming up from below.
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Words with an opposite meaning
failing
Another way to use it
2. adjective
coming after another in time or order; next
The company's succeeding CEO inherited a much larger budget.
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