successor

Birinin veya bir şeyin yerini alan kişi veya şey, halef

A person or thing that comes after and takes the place of another.

• The board is meeting to choose a successor to the retiring CEO.
• She was appointed as his successor after he resigned.
• The new model is a worthy successor to the original design.
• The university's search committee spent eight months evaluating candidates before naming a successor to the dean who had led the faculty for fifteen years.
• Historians debate whether the Byzantine Empire should be considered the legitimate successor to the Roman Empire or a distinct civilization altogether.
• Software developers designed the new operating system as a successor that maintains backward compatibility while introducing advanced security features and improved performance.

Eş anlamlılar: heir, replacement, inheritor, descendant, follower

Zıt anlamlılar: predecessor, forerunner, precursor