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Meaning cede meaning

What does cede mean?

cede

— verb (= surrender) relinquish possession or control over The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in — verb (= concede) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

Synonyms cede synonyms

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cede English » English

yield grant give up relinquish assign give way surrender give in concede accommodate deliver allow submit resign hand over convey abandon turn over renounce forsake allot yield up yield to walk back vouchsafe vanish into thin air vacate transfer step down step back spare sign over shelve sell retrogress render relent reinsurance regress recognize recede quit put off procrastinate present postpone own open up make one’s last exit make one’s exit

Topics cede topics

What do people use cede to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Renounce claim, concede

Conjugation cede conjugation

How do you conjugate cede?

cede · verb

Examples cede examples

How do I use cede in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

China had to pay an indemnity of 21 million silver dollars, cede the island of Hong Kong, and open five ports to British trade, including this one.
I can't cede the territories.
You will cede to Egypt all the territories I have demanded.
Our finest Ministers are cast aside like cheap trinkets, all because they refused to be dominated, they would not cede to Rasputin's dissolute demands!
Let them recognize my hegemony and cede us some suitable colonies.
As of this day, I cede authority over the house of Ichimonji to my eldest son, Taro. My lord!
Item: I cede control over all Ichimonji lands to my first son, Taro.
Master Wong, we cede to your greater wisdom.
Unless you wish to cede all claim to the Euphrates sector.
You will cede the trade name and promise to use it no longer.
I'm not gonna cede my home to no revolutionaries without a fight.
Would you cede your duties to your vice president and for how long?
Uh, Your Honor, at this point I'd like to cede the floor to my colleague, Charles Gunn.
Grayza says she is willing to cede all the Luxan worlds to the Scarrans in exchange for peace.
But I'll cede a point if you're ready to be cooperative.
Assyria will cede you Israel.
I have the voice and I don't cede it to anyone!
You shouldn't cede, Jose, this has less and less to do with original project.
I hereby cede total authority over all my dominions to my eldest son Taro.
We risk being ridiculed here. Master Wong, we cede to your greater wisdom.
Governor Li Hung-chang is planning to cede Liaodong Peninsula to Japan.
If we don't cede to your demands, how many women will walk out tomorrow?
Nowhere to move. Shall I cede?
The Captain will not cede. Even to his son.
But the inspector also loved children, and couldn't honorably cede to Detochkin.
Have to cede power.
I hereby cede total authority. over all my dominions. to my eldest son Taro.
Your Honor, I'd like to cede the floor to my colleague, Charles Gunn.
So I will cede her to you.
Proximity to Great Lakes Reserve Center help convince 'em to cede jurisdiction?
Once you've made physical contact, never cede your ground.
I cede the strip clubs.
Randy, I cede the reins to you, the expert, the guru, the one who will lead us in a safer, more untrackable direction.
I hereby cede any and all rights to ever contest the results of this paternity test.

News and current affairs

This is a tall order, in view of the reluctance of most EU member states to cede competences to European institutions.
No country is ready to cede political sovereignty to outside powers or electoral monitors.
But the Bank's performance epitomizes how even well designed and well-built ships slow down as the barnacles build up, until they must cede the way to newer vessels.
Governments did not have to cede these powers.
We cannot - indeed, must not - cede to terror by building walls around and within our societies.
The alternative to focussing on the essentials is to cede more national sovereignty to the Union level.
That saved the euro, but it also relieved the pressure on Germany to cede control of its oft-distressed banks.
This could be done partly by enlisting sovereign wealth funds and partly by issuing Special Drawing Rights so that rich countries that can finance their own fiscal deficits could cede to poorer countries that cannot.
Moreover, states must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to function.
Tony Blair, once an ardent pro-European (at least by Britain's undemanding standards), might finally have to cede power to Gordon Brown, who is famously cold to European integration.
Is this a plausible explanation as to why Chinese entrepreneurs cede control to expatriates?
Since its inception last February, the NTC has consistently declared itself to be a transitional body that would cede power to an elected government once the country was liberated.
This policy encouraged Fatah not to cede any power to Hamas in the West Bank, engendering the split in occupied Palestine.
Nevertheless, on climate change, poverty, and other issues, the conventional wisdom is that the UN should cede responsibility to the G-20.
National governments are unlikely to cede significant control to transnational institutions, and harmonizing rules would not benefit societies with diverse needs and preferences.
As for Syria, the only plausible route to normalcy begins with forcing President Bashar al-Assad to cede power.
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN - Turkey has over the past few weeks become the spearhead of a joint Western-Arab-Turkish policy aimed at forcing President Bashar al-Assad to cede power in Syria.
The deal was done with a large helping of political fudge: the three biggest European Union economies - the United Kingdom, France, and Germany - were persuaded to cede some control to the center, but only if each could host an authority.

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