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Phrase(s): succeed as something
to flourish or prosper as a type of person. • I hope I succeed as a bank teller. • Jamie succeeded as an investigator., Phrase(s): succeed someone as something
to take the place of someone as something; to supplant someone in something. • Jeff will succeed Claude as president of the organization. • You are not allowed to succeed yourself as president.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs