cession

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Middle French cession, from Latin cessionem, from past participle of cēdere (“to yield”). By surface analysis, cede + -sion.

--|The cessions by the states. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
The cession was made in 1905. — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) Gilson
The cessions at present proposed are not, however, satisfactory. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

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