0 present 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.
The confident songbird shows off by "deliberately depriving itself of information," ceding priority to the left hemisphere in the process.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, most state legislatures had passed bills ceding the responsibility of overseeing divorces to the courts.
Coalitions allow agents to take advantage of economies of scale, without necessarily ceding authority to other agents.
The party at the parliamentary median may share government ministries with parties to its left or right without ceding policy control.
Measures to control aggregate expenditure involved the state ceding most of its responsibilities for health care to the regions.
The expressive soloist gets support, emphasis and echo from the ensemble, ceding only rarely to a single instrument or section but never playing opposite them.
Agrawal (2001, 2000) notes that governments in more than 50 countries are ceding some control over resources to local users.
Although there was little the colonial rulers could do about the former (beyond ceding power), the unrepresentative nature of the local constabulary could certainly have been addressed.
