: a person who has a job, position, or title after someone else : someone who succeeds another person. See the full definition for successor in the English Language Learners Dictionary.

What is successor example?

Successor of a given number is 1 more than the given number. For example, 9,99,99,999 is predecessor of 10,00,00,000 or we can also say 10,00,00,000 is the successor of 9,99,99,999. Definition of Successor: The number which comes immediately after a particular number is called its successor.

What does successor mean in legal terms?

One who follows or comes into the place of another. This term is applied more particularly to a sole corporation, or to any corporation. The word heir is more correctly applicable to a common person who takes an estate by descent.