cession

American  

[sesh-uhn] / ˈsɛʃ ən /

noun

1. act of ceding, as by treaty.

2. something that is ceded, as territory.

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cession British  

/ ˈsɛʃən /

noun

1. the act of ceding, esp of ceding rights, property, or territory

2. something that is ceded, esp land or territory

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Etymology

Origin of cession

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin cessiōn- (stem of cessiō ) a giving up, equivalent to cess ( us ) past participle of cēdere to yield ( ced- perfect stem + -tus past participle suffix) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

A colonial civil servant later described the cession of Hong Kong as “a surprise to all concerned.”

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022

That conflict ended with the humiliating cession of more than half the nation’s territory to the United States, but López Obrador saw in it at least a few examples of valor.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2018

In the rest of the cession, Mexican laws against slavery would remain in force until those areas attained statehood or the courts ruled otherwise.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

To make the Sac and Fox whole, the commission ordered an additional payment of 59.5 cents per acre, or $1,969,585, for the portion of the cession within the Louisiana Territory.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2017

The cession by which the Osage were forced back was made at St. Louis in June, 1825, under General William Clark's superintendency.—Ed.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp