-cede, -ceed, -cess, -cease +

1. To give back or to give something back to someone; such as, land or a territory.
2. To go back or to recede.
3. Etymology: from Latin retrocedere, "to go back" from retro-, "back" + cedere, "to go".

1. To make a formal withdrawal of membership from an organization, state, or alliance.
2. To withdraw formally from a union, fellowship, or association; especially, from a political or religious organization.

1. A formal withdrawal from an organization, state, or alliance; especially, from a political or religious association.
2. Etymology: from Latin secessionem, from the stem of secedere. "secede" which consists of se-, "apart" + cedere. "to go".

A belief or policy in favor of withdrawal from a nation, state, organization, or alliance.

A secession occurs when people in a country or state declare their independence from the ruling government.

When a dissatisfied group secedes, it creates its own form of government in place of the former ruling government. Secessions are serious maneuvers that lead to, or arise from, military conflict.

1. A person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
2. Referring to, or pertaining to, secession or secessionists.

Let the process stand.

A court order suspending further action.

1. To happen or terminate according to a desire; to turn out successfully; have the desired result.
2. To thrive, prosper, grow, or the like.
3. To accomplish what is attempted or intended.
4. To follow or replace another by descent, election, appointment, etc. (often followed by to).
5. To come next after something else in an order or series.
6. Etymology: from Old French succeder, "come next after, take the place of another"; from Latin succedere, "to come after, to go near to"; from suc-, "up, near" a variant of sub, "under" + cedere, "to go, to move".

The sense of "have a favorable result", is first recorded in Middle English before 1475.

1. The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.
2. An effort that accomplishes its intended purpose.

1. Obtaining what one desires or intends.
2. Having reached a high degree of financial prosperity.
3. Terminating in or meeting with success; resulting favorably.

A redundant statement or words repeating the same definitions; as, successful [having the intended result or obtaining what one desilres] + achievement [the act or process of finishing something successfully].

1. In a successful manner or having obtained something desired or intended:.
2. With a favorable termination of what is attempted; favorably.

1. A condition of prospering or having good fortune.
2. Resulting favorably.

1. A sequence of people or things coming one after the other in time.
2. The following of one thing after another: "Our baseball team had five wins in succession."
3. The assumption of a position or title, the right to take up a position or title, or the order in which a position or title is taken up.
4. The series of changes that create a full-fledged plant and animal community; for example, from the colonization of bare rock to the establishment of a forest.
5. Etymology: from Old French succession, from Latin successionem, successio, "a following after, a coming into another's place, a result"; from successus, past participle of succedere, "to come after, to go near to", from sub, "next to, after" + cedere, "to go, to move".

Following in an uninterrupted sequence; consecutive.

In proper order or sequence.