- following one after another in a continuous series
- She was absent for nine consecutive days.
- He is beginning his fourth consecutive term of office.
- After six consecutive defeats, the team was almost ready to give up.
- Interest rates rose again for the fifth consecutive month.
- They achieved their third consecutive year of record sales.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryConsecutive is used with these nouns:- defeat
- draw
- month
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French consécutif, -ive, from medieval Latin consecutivus, from Latin consecut- ‘followed closely’, from the verb consequi.
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