PREDECESSOR


Meaning of PREDECESSOR in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pri:dɪsesə(r), AM pred- ]

( predecessors)

1.

Your predecessor is the person who had your job before you.

He maintained that he learned everything he knew from his predecessor Kenneth Sisam.

N-COUNT : usu poss N

2.

The predecessor of an object or machine is the object or machine that came before it in a sequence or process of development.

The car is some 40mm shorter than its predecessor.

= forerunner

N-COUNT : usu with poss

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