predecessor

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The new CEO opened letter #1 and the paper inside had the words blame it on your predecessor.

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Quick take

one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

Meaning at a glance

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noun

one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

noun

something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for predecessor.

noun

one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

noun

something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

See also: harbinger, forerunner, herald, precursor

Example sentences

The new CEO opened letter #1 and the paper inside had the words blame it on your predecessor.

This is purely anecdotal, but my predecessor at my current job was a CS graduate and wrote code like in the OP.

The predecessor was wildly successful and created new problems.

> How can the linux kernel compile itself?Short answer: it can't. Each software system relies for its own existence on a predecessor, usually one of smaller scope.

During the discussion, the departing CEO stated he had placed 3 very important letters in his drawer just as his predecessor had done for him.

By way of background -- at the time that we created Wasabi's predecessor, Thistle, we had a large code base in VBScript that only ran on Windows, and almost no developers.

It would seem that implementing a new UX around it won't really help, since the new "fill up turn bar" would be just as unreliable and error-prone as its blue-arrow predecessor.

Because the people who made it originally are gone, replaced by a bunch of guys who are told "Make it work like the last one, but the market says it needs to be more action-y, so do that too." The people on the new team weren't there the first time around, and so they wind up making a faded copy of a game trying to imitate the predecessor.