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How to pronounce cede in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms concede, grant, yield
Type of give
Derivation cession
Type Words
Synonyms deliver, give up, surrender
Type of give, present, gift
Has types yield up, sell, sign away, sign over
Derivation cession

Examples of cede

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At stake is how much autonomy Kosovo is willing to cede to its Serbian minority.
From the nytimes.com
Gbagbo refuses to cede power to Ouattara following a disputed Nov. 28 election.
From the bloomberg.com
In the end, the captain must cede his place in the lady's bed to his young rival.
From the bloomberg.com
The illness forced him to step down and cede power to his younger brother Raul.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Did it concern the elder Murdoch's unwillingness to cede more of his authority?
From the businessweek.com
Lopez seems all too content to cede his fourth-quarter minutes to Andray Blatche.
From the offthedribble.blogs.nytimes.com
The last thing we should do is cede the fight before it even gets off the ground.
From the forbes.com
They don't like the fact that they must cede control to the pilot in an airplane.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Now Congress is being asked to cede both power and a reliable fundraising source.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Concede: give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
  • Surrender: relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"
  • (ceding) cession: the act of ceding
  • The act of Cession, or to cede, is the assignment of property to another entity. In international law it commonly refers to land transferred by treaty. Ballentine's Law Dictionary defines cession as "a surrender; a yielding; a giving up. ...
  • The committed effective dose equivalent or CEDE is an estimate of the radiation dose to a person resulting from inhalation or ingestion of a given amount of radioactive substance. The CEDE is expressed in rem or sieverts (Sv). ...
  • (Cedes) The ruins of the ancient Canaanite village of Kedesh are located within the modern Kibbutz Malkiya in Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border.Negev and Gibson, 2005, p. 278.
  • To give up, give way, give away
  • The transfer of all or part of a risk written by an insurer to a reinsurer.
  • To transfer a risk exposure under a reinsurance contract.