heir apparent
heir ap·par·ent • n. (pl. heirs ap·par·ent) an heir whose claim cannot be set aside by the birth of another heir. Compare with heir presumptive. ∎ fig. a person who is most likely to succeed to the place of another: he was once considered heir apparent to the chairman.
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