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.
We are talking about local government ceding its traditional role in managing social services to what is essentially a health service body—the care trust.
Nothing was included in the price in respect of the ceding of the right to build.
The question of ceding will be determined the other way round.
But the drawback about leaseback is that the way one begins a lease-back period, whether of 17, 15 or 12 years, is by ceding sovereignty.
It would have nothing to do with ceding that amount of sovereignty.
The powers of the education action forum are derived from governing bodies ceding the powers that they have at present.
Subsequently, its grand plans for reform were diminished and domesticated until there was little left but piecemeal attempts to assuage the most violent conflicts by ceding title to occupied lands.
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.
