cession
/ˈsɛʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
The formal giving up of rights, property, or territory by a state: the cession of twenty important towns...
- If there was a special cessions protection, each cession of $2m would go to that treaty and the vertical limit of $5m would not matter; there would be no accumulations.
- Article One was meaningful in 1840, both as a mark of consent and formal cession, and to signify to other colonial powers that this patch was taken, but it's difficult to see its relevance now in anything but a historical sense.
- When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 the territory was briefly occupied by German troops, before its cession to Russia pursuant to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact.
Synonyms
surrender, surrendering, ceding, conceding, concession, relinquishment, yielding, giving up, handing over, transfer, transference, transferral, granting, grant, bequest;
resignation, abdication, abandonment, forgoing, forsaking, sacrifice, waiving, waiver, renunciation
Origin
Late Middle English; from Latin cessio(n-), from cedere 'cede'.