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ceded

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Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

yielded or formally surrendered:
The new owners will have total sovereignty over the ceded lands.

Origin of ceded¹

He later apologized for the error, and ceded control of his Twitter handle to his company, Katalyst Media (although not for long).

Impossible plot machinations have been ceded to Machiavelli and the Italian states.

The left has been ceded a monopoly on caring about black people, and monopolies are dangerous.

A bloody conflict ended in a cease-fire that ceded to the militants the right to institute Sharia law in the Swat area.

As part of that deal, it effectively ceded control to Damascus over as much of Lebanon as it wanted.

It was a direct lie to tell the Austrian commander that an armistice had been arranged and the bridge ceded to the French.

The war, conducted by him with so much vigor, terminated in a peace, by which Canada was ceded to England.

Had the reverse taken place,had the island been ceded to France,let me ask, what would have been the consequence?

This band formerly owned and ceded the south banks of the Arkansas from its mouth as high as the Canadian fork.

Mexico ceded to the United States under this agreement the area of an empire!

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