line of succession

1. 1.

   the order in which individuals are expected to succeed one another in some official position

   Broaderline

Questions about line of succession

What does line of succession mean?

line of succession means "the order in which individuals are expected to succeed one another in some official position".

Is line of succession a common word?

line of succession is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.