Meaning of succeed in English

succeed

verb

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succeed verb (ACHIEVE SOMETHING)

If you succeed, you achieve something that you have been aiming for, and if a plan or piece of work succeeds, it has the results that you wanted:

She's been trying to pass her driving test for six years and she's finally succeeded.

You need to be pretty tough to succeed in the property world.

The campaign has certainly succeeded in raising public awareness of the issue.

humorous Richard succeeded in offending (= managed unintentionally to offend) just about everybody in the room!

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He has a desperate desire to succeed.
She has the drive to succeed.
There is no reason why we shouldn't succeed.
Most couples would agree that for a marriage to succeed, both parties have to work at it.
He is unlikely to succeed in getting his bill through Congress, however worthy it is.

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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling

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succeed verb (FOLLOW)

[ I or T ]

to take an official job or position after someone else:

He succeeded his father as editor of the paper.

When the Queen dies, her eldest son will succeed to the throne.

to come after another person or thing in time:

In the weeks that succeeded, five more patients showed similar symptoms.

Almost from its beginnings, New York has produced succeeding generations of intellectuals.

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Replacing and exchanging

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Occurring and happening

Idiom

if at first you don't succeed, try, try again

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succeed

verb

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succeed verb (ACHIEVE SOMETHING)

[ I ]

to achieve something that you have been aiming for, or (of a plan or piece of work) to have the desired results:

She’s been trying to pass her driving test for years and she finally succeeded.

He succeeded in building the business into one the leaders in its field.

succeed verb (FOLLOW)

[ T ] fml

to take the place of another person or thing:

[ T ] Kamen was named company chairman, succeeding Robert Schwartz, who is retiring after 44 years.

(Definition of succeed from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

succeed | Business English

succeed

verb

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[ I ]

if you succeed, you achieve something that you have been trying to do or get, and if a plan or a piece of work succeeds, it has the results that you wanted:

succeed in sth He is determined to succeed in the property market.

succeed in doing sth The new exchange rate succeeded in bringing inflation down.

[ T ]

to take an official job or position after someone else:

succeed sb as sth Karl Smith will succeed him as chief executive.

(Definition of succeed from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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For her project to succeed fully, she would need to be able to vindicate both her historical and philosophical claims.

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In my perspective, the author succeeds in undertaking this new approach and in accomplishing her goal.

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The book succeeds in the first case, although attention to the practical application of the research in this area is less well considered.

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The book succeeds on the first two counts, but falls short of providing a satisfying analysis of social relations.

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Getting this right can be quite tricky and not doing it may prevent cut or contraction elimination from succeeding correctly.

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Moreover, we may even succeed in ascribing a fully individuating property in this manner.

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He succeeded in piloting the ship into an unfamiliar fjord and signalled for assistance.

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The potential number of nation-states may be higher given the existence of numerous unsatisfied nationalisms which may succeed, one day.

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Such extended longevity means that two generations in the family exist, often independently, for long periods, which delays the transfer of wealth between succeeding generations.

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This rule may succeed for some destinations, but not for those that have no museums.

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During the succeeding reunion, the infant stilled against the parent with eyes dazed for over 1 full min, and was, of course, judged disorganized.

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This observation provides us with a simple mechanism for filtering out unifications that cannot possibly succeed.

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According to this notion, which is nowadays referred to as computable randomness, a sequence is computably random if no computable martingale succeeds on it.

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He succeeded in reuniting tradition and modernity, and in making measure useful and meaningful once again.

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I argue in the next two sections that two of the putative mechanisms do not succeed.

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