1. Coming after or following
   "The succeeding events unfolded rapidly"
    
2. (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
   "our succeeding president";
   - 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 [informal], deliver the goods, come up trumps [Brit, informal], turn up trumps [Brit, informal]
    
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, temporal relation, timing, undermentioned

Type of: act, come, move

Antonym: preceding

Encyclopedia: Succeed