cession

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UK/ˈsɛʃən/

noun

That which is ceded.

“The reinsurance company accepted a 25% cession from the direct insurer.”

Similar
ceding
OriginMiddle French cession ← Latin cessionem →
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Meanings

nouncession (countable and uncountable, plural cessions)

plural cessions

  1. countableuncountableThat which is ceded.
    1. countableuncountableA risk, or part of one, which is transferred from one actor to another.

      The reinsurance company accepted a 25% cession from the direct insurer.

  2. countableuncountableThe giving up of rights, property etc. which one is entitled to.

    […] Rashleigh, whose occasions frequently call him elsewhere, has generously made a cession of his rights in my favour; so that I now endeavour to prosecute alone the studies in which he used formerly to be my guide.

    1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 228

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe act of ceding

Similar
ceding
Broader
relinquishmentrelinquishing
Also see
abandonmentrelinquishment

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latincessionem
  2. Middle Frenchcession
  3. Englishcession

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

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Translations

Bulgarian цесия
  • цесия (cesija)giving up of rights, property or territory
Finnish luovutus
  • luovutusgiving up of rights, property or territory
Norwegian Bokmål avståelse
  • avståelsegiving up of rights, property or territory
Polish cesja
  • cesjagiving up of rights, property or territory

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with cession

sessionexpressiondepressioncompressionprofessionpossessionimpressionobsessionconfessionoppressionrecessionhessianpressionfreshenangioregressionangle of depressionneshenprepossessionshecessionTrumpcessionTrumpression
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Sounds the same

session
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APA

cession. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cession

MLA

“cession.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cession. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cession,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cession.

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