Usually means: Transfer of rights or property.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. cession: Merriam-Webster
  2. cession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cession: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cession: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cession, cession: Wordnik
  7. cession: Wiktionary
  8. cession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cession: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cession: Dictionary.com
  12. cession: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Cession: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cession: Rhymezone
  17. Cession: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. cession: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cession: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. cession: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cession: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. cession: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. cession: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cession)

▸ noun:  That which is ceded.
▸ noun:  A risk, or part of one, which is transferred from one actor to another.
▸ noun:  The giving up of rights, property etc. which one is entitled to.

Similar:
ceding, concession, recession, cedant, concedence, yielding, conc., accedence, forfeiting, appropriation, more...

Opposite:
retention, acquisition

Types:
secession, abdication, renunciation, withdrawal, more...

Phrases:
Mexican Cession, more...

Adjectives:
mexican, formal, territorial, voluntary, such, final, immediate, large, complete, further, absolute


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Similar:
ceding, concession, recession, cedant, concedence, yielding, conc., accedence, forfeiting, appropriation, more...

Opposite:
retention, acquisition

Types:
secession, abdication, renunciation, withdrawal, more...

Phrases:
Mexican Cession, more...

Adjectives:
mexican, formal, territorial, voluntary, such, final, immediate, large, complete, further, absolute



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