Crossword-Solution: PREDECESSOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Predecessor | n. | One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “PREDECESSOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Person who did the job before | 1 answer |
| One who came before | 1 answer |
| one who precedes you in time | 1 answer |
| The one before | 1 answer |
| PREVIOUS holder of post | 1 answer |
| One there before | 1 answer |
| steersman | 14 answers |
| Forefather. | 14 answers |
| Trailblazer | 20 answers |
| Foregoer | 26 answers |
| ancestor | 33 answers |
| Pathfinder | 36 answers |
| vanguard | 38 answers |
| Scout | 50 answers |
| Pioneer | 55 answers |
| Precursor. | 60 answers |
| Antecedent. | 62 answers |
| forerunner | 69 answers |
| DIRECTOR ___ | 71 answers |
| explorer | 72 answers |
| Leader? | 81 answers |
| Father | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PREDECESSOR (5)
President Paz Zamora has retained the economic policies of the previous government, keeping inflation down and continuing the moderate growth begun under his predecessor.
Nothing, if I rightly call to mind, was left of my respected predecessor, save an imperfect skeleton, and some fragments of apparel, and a wig of majestic frizzle, which, unlike the head that it once adorned, was in very satisfactory preservation.
The cellar, indeed, was filled with crazy lumber, mostly dating from the times of the surgeon who was Jekyll’s predecessor; but even as they opened the door they were advertised of the uselessness of further search, by the fall of a perfect mat of cobweb which had for years sealed up the entrance.
Neither does he explain why Stephen was awarded a pleasanter death than he was entitled to, while the aged King Henry, his predecessor, who had ruled England thirty-five years to the people’s strongly worded satisfaction, was condemned to close his life in circumstances most distinctly unpleasant, inconvenient, and disagreeable.
Its ugly and spiteful little din (heard now for the first time, perhaps, since Hepzibah’s periwigged predecessor had retired from trade) at once set every nerve of her body in responsive and tumultuous vibration.
Quotes with PREDECESSOR (3)
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)
Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice. -Paul Wellstone (Minnesota Senator, Al Franken predecessor)
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2005–2017).