successiveadjective [ before noun ]
uk/səkˈses.ɪv/us/səkˈses.ɪv/C2 happening one after the other without any break:
It was the team's fourth successive defeat.
He won the World Championship for the third successive year.
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Simultaneous and consecutive
- accompany
- all the while idiom
- along
- along the way idiom
- alternate
- go
- in rotation idiom
- in tandem idiom
- in the process idiom
- live
- no sooner ... than idiom
- once
- over
- synchronous
- tandem
- the minute (that) idiom
- through
- throughout
- together
- under
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successively
adverb uk/səkˈses.ɪv.li/us/səkˈses.ɪv.li/
Since the championship began, they have finished successively ninth, seventh, and fifth.