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.
That new right has been acquired because we have ceded another right.
There can be no disenfranchisement; the vote, once it is ceded, cannot be taken away.
Executives with careers in sales ceded firm leadership to finance officers because finance increasingly became an important tool for stabilizing cash flows in large, multidivisional corporations.
Khubz, the powerful idiom of the past, ceded to the idiom of the present: the vote.
Recognizing imperial reluctance to go even this far, the governor limited the land to be made available to settlers by confining it within the ' ceded ' territory.
This alone could guarantee the paralysis that stayed the hand of authority, and ceded the initiative to rebels.
Before the scientific voice was ceded to its technocratic variant, other, less restrictive options were available.
When they ceded asset management to family members, some older people expected that these practices would continue.
