inherit
继承,承袭,遗传,遗产
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Definitions
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- : to take or receive by succession or will, as an heir: to inherit the family business.
- : to receive as if by succession from predecessors: the problems the new government inherited from the previous administration.
- : to receive by the transmission of hereditary factors.
- : to succeed as heir.
- : to receive as one's portion; come into possession of: to inherit his brother's old clothes.
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- : to take or receive property or the like by virtue of being heir to it.
- : to receive qualities, powers, duties, etc., as by inheritance.
- : to have succession as heir.
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Examples
And, all ad groups and keywords will inherit bidding from their parent campaign.
As he pointed out in his recent State of the City address, the budget he inherited is in trouble.
The psychologists who designed these tests in the early 20th century believed, incorrectly, that you inherited “intelligence” from your family and nothing you might do would change it.
Fortunately, Bush inherited his father’s sense of humor along with his two left feet.
Political corruption, economic inequality and violence are organic features of American society, and they reflect the same legacies of racism that international development inherited from the Enlightenment.
Simon did not expect to inherit, and in a way he never really did.
This demographic reality means that whoever wins the suburban vote in 2016 and beyond will inherit the political future.
Having said that, leadership is not a birth right that you inherit and it just keeps going.
It makes sense only in cultural contexts in which women breed and men inherit.
The anti-evolutionists were as humiliated in this performance as they were in Inherit the Wind.
And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.
They inherit from father to children, or by blood, and do not recognize one as greater than the other.