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The person you're compared to forever, whether you asked for it or not.
means Someone who held a position, role, or place before you did.
from From Latin praedecessor, built from prae- ('before') plus decessor ('one who departs or withdraws'), itself from decedere ('to go away, depart') — the same root that gives us 'decease.' So the word literally means 'one who departed before,' which is a quietly brutal way to describe the person whose shoes you're now standing in.
- etymology
- latin for one who goes before
- office politics
- blamed for everything until you prove otherwise
- job interviews
- always described as either a legend or a disaster
- irony
- you'll become one too, eventually