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Pronunciation: [sˈɛʃən] (IPA)

Cession is a term used to refer to the act of giving up or transferring ownership or control of something. Sometimes, in order to vary our vocabulary, we may need to use synonyms for this word. Some of the possible synonyms for cession include grant, relinquishment, abandonment, surrender, transfer, delivery, and consignment. Alternatively, if we are referring to a specific type of cession where territory is transferred between nations, the synonyms for cession may be a treaty, agreement, or annexation. It is always important to choose the appropriate synonym based on the context of the sentence to ensure the correct meaning is conveyed.

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What are the opposite words for cession?

Cession refers to the act of giving up or surrendering one's rights or property to someone else. The opposite of cession is acquisition or appropriation, which refers to the process of obtaining or acquiring something. Another antonym is retention, which means holding onto or keeping possession of something. Refusal or rejection can also be considered opposites of cession, as they imply a refusal to surrender or give up something. Other related antonyms for cession include resistance, defense, and preservation, which all involve protecting one's rights or property rather than giving them up willingly.

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Usage examples for Cession

In 1800 Spain receded the province to France, and it was purchased by the United States in 1803. In 1810 the population amounted to twenty-four thousand five hundred and fifty-two souls: Ever since the cession to the United States the strides of the city of Orleans have been rapid, and her march onward!
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett
The latter never forgave the cession of Nice, his native town, to France, and never could be convinced that the sacrifice of Italian territory was a necessary step towards uniting Italy.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
The King was inflexible in his refusal to come to terms, and the Queen, though she was still depressed and bitterly angry with Buckingham, showed herself, since the cession which permitted her to retain Madame de Vantelet and her old nurse, more reconciled to the change.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes

Famous quotes with Cession

  • And as it [the federal district] is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State ceding it; as the State will no doubt provide in the compact for the rights, and the consent of the citizens inhabiting it; as the inhabitants will find sufficient inducements of interest to become willing parties to the cession; as they will have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal Legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them; and as the authority of the Legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it, to concur in the cession, will be derived from the whole people of the State, in their adoption of the Constitution, every imaginable objection seems to be obviated.
    James Madison
  • Caesar did not confine himself to helping the debtor for the moment; he did what as legislator he could, permanently to keep down the fearful omnipotence of capital. First of all the great legal maxim was proclaimed, that freedom is not a possession commensurable with property, but an eternal right of man, of which the state is entitled judicially to deprive the criminal alone, not the debtor. It was Caesar, who, perhaps stimulated in this case also by the more humane Egyptian and Greek legislation, especially that of Solon,(68) introduced this principle--diametrically opposed to the maxims of the earlier ordinances as to bankruptcy-- into the common law, where it has since retained its place undisputed. According to Roman law the debtor unable to pay became the serf of his creditor.(69) The Poetelian law no doubt had allowed a debtor, who had become unable to pay only through temporary embarrassments, not through genuine insolvency, to save his personal freedom by the cession of his property;(70) nevertheless for the really insolvent that principle of law, though doubtless modified in secondary points, had been in substance retained unaltered for five hundred years; a direct recourse to the debtor's estate only occurred exceptionally, when the debtor had died or had forfeited his burgess-rights or could not be found. It was Caesar who first gave an insolvent the right--on which our modern bankruptcy regulations are based-- of formally ceding his estate to his creditors, whether it might suffice to satisfy them or not, so as to save at all events his personal freedom although with diminished honorary and political rights, and to begin a new financial existence, in which he could only be sued on account of claims proceeding from the earlier period and not protected in the liquidation, if he could pay them without renewed financial ruin.
    Theodor Mommsen

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