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Course one gets on to pursue prosperity (10)

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I believe the answer is:

succession

'course' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'one gets on to pursue prosperity' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'gets' says to put letters next to each other.
'to pursue' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'prosperity' becomes 'success' (success is a kind of prosperity**).
'i' put next to 'on' is 'ion'.
'ion' put after 'success' is 'SUCCESSION'.

(Another definition for succession that I've seen is " Line of people coming after one another".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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