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'.
Rhymes
- immortalization
- immortalize
- immortally
- Immortals
- immortelle
- immotile
- immovability
- immovable
- immovably
- immoveable
- immun.
- immune
- immune body
- immune cell
- immune complex
- immune deficiency
- immune globulin
- immune-mediated
- immune response
- immune serum
- immune system
- immunifacient
- immunisation
- immunise
- immunist