{
    "term": "successive",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "following immediately one after the other",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This was their fourth successive win."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Successive governments have tried to tackle the problem."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There has been low rainfall for two successive years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She grew less confident with every successive defeat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country experienced successive waves of invasion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The road remained closed for the third successive day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The text has been used by successive generations of medical students."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "consecutive"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsesɪv/",
                "audio": "su/successive/successive__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsesɪv/",
                "audio": "su/successive/successive__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from medieval Latin successivus, from success- ‘followed closely’, from the verb succedere ‘come close after’, from sub- ‘close to’ + cedere ‘go’."
}