0 to allow someone else to have or own something, especially unwillingly or because you are forced to do so -- （尤指不情願地或被迫）割讓，讓予，放棄
Hong Kong was ceded to Britain after the Opium War. 鴉片戰爭後香港被割讓給英國。
In the absence of dual vessels, it would then seem reasonable to cede bronchial status to the collateral vessels.
Through marriage alliances, claims to land can be kept within the kin group or might be ceded to another group.
The confident songbird shows off by "deliberately depriving itself of information," ceding priority to the left hemisphere in the process.
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.
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.
