0 past simple and past participle of cede
1 to allow someone else to have or own something, especially unwillingly or because you are forced to do so:
Hong Kong was ceded to Britain after the Opium War.
Through marriage alliances, claims to land can be kept within the kin group or might be ceded to another group.
This decisionmaking capacity, ceded to me by the parents, has been considered ethically acceptable in my neonatal intensive care unit.
In terms of methodology, the structurally-based situational approach ceded ground on two fronts.
Clinicians recognize that in large organizations-managed care plans and hospitals-they have ceded control over the content and flow of patient data to administrators.
The basis upon which sovereign authorities exercise political power is this executive power of the law of nature ceded to them by their subjects.
The man to whom possession was ceded has the right to the sharecropping agreement.
Most of the responsibilities for health care have been ceded to the regions.
When they ceded asset management to family members, some older people expected that these practices would continue.
