CESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cession mean? 

• CESSION (noun)
  The noun CESSION has 1 sense:

1. the act of ceding

  Familiarity information: CESSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of ceding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ceding; cession

Hypernyms ("cession" is a kind of...):

relinquishing; relinquishment (the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cession"):

ceding back; recession (the act of ceding back)

Derivation:

cede (relinquish possession or control over)

cede (give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another)

 Context examples 

Add to this double apprehension the mystery that still hung over the behaviour of my friends, their unexplained desertion of the stockade, their inexplicable cession of the chart, or harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver, Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found in my breakfast and with how uneasy a heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)