succession or inheritance of a position, for example as head of a household or organization, or in a specific role

to succeed to or inherit a position, for example as head of a household or organization, or in a specific role / (law) to inherit the assets and liabilities of a deceased person

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(business) a company

father / (by extension, figuratively) a father figure (male initiator or founder of something) / (Christianity) God, the Holy Father

(archaic) one's own father

(childish) one's own father: daddy / (by later extension) a husband, master of the house

(informal, possibly dialect) one's own father / (by later extension) the head or master of an establishment such as a teahouse, boathouse, etc.