Portuguese term (edited): sucess�o

Informal and in this context...

Portuguese term (edited): sucess�o

Literal. This is the word, look:

Moving to West Virginia
... Two years later, voters approved the Governor's Succession Amendment to the state constitution, which allowed a governor to serve two consecutive terms ...
www.abcmovex.com/states/WESTVIRGINIA.html

Horace Harned oral history
... In fact, the governor's succession---if the governor's succession had been allowed in those days, Governor Barnett probably would have been reelected ...
www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/oh/harnedtrans.htm


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Here\'s Webster\'s definition:

succession (sek sesen)
n.
1 the act of succeeding or coming after another in order or sequence or to an office, estate, throne, etc.
2 the right to succeed to an office, estate, etc.
3 a number of persons or things coming one after another in time or space; series; sequence [a succession of delays]
4 a) a series of heirs or rightful successors of any kind b) the order or line of such a series
5 Ecol. the slow, regular sequence of changes in the regional development of communities of plants and associated animals, culminating in a climax characteristic of a specific geographical environment
SYN. series
in succession one after another in a regular series or sequence; successively
successional
adj.
successionally
adv.

Etymology
[OFr < L successio < succedere: see succeed]

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