succession order
Who inherits next
Succession order is the sequence determining who inherits a position when the current holder dies, resigns, or becomes incapacitated.
Most commonly refers to political leadership: The vice president is first in the succession order.
Also applies to monarchies, corporate leadership, and any organization with formal rules about who takes over next.
- heirOne who receives legacy
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- listSequence of recorded items
- lineContinuous mark or queue
- pioneer speciesFirst life establishing somewhere
precedence · crown · royal family · hierarchy · regency · dynasty · abdication · disturbance · chronology · colonization · primogeniture · queue · aristocracy · sequence · workflow · monarchy · scepter · progression
- precedencepriority, chain of command, seniority, sequence, right of way
- royal decreesroyal decree, royal decrees, decree, decrees, royal edict
- royal successionthrone, heir apparent, heir presumptive, crown prince, next in line
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, heir, heirs, heiress
succession orderrandom selection
Choosing without systematic bias
lottery · random draw · luck of the draw · random assignment · whim
succession orderchaos
Complete disorder and confusion
disorder · randomness · simultaneity · anarchy · disarray
succession orderpower vacuum
Absence of governing authority
chaos · interregnum · coup · usurpation · overthrow
succession, order, succeed, success, successful, successfully, unsuccessful, successive, successively