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单词 cession
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Definition of cession in English:

cession

noun ˈsɛʃ(ə)nˈsɛʃən
mass noun
  • The formal giving up of rights, property, or territory by a state.

    (权利或财产的)放弃;(领土的)割让

    the cession of twenty important towns

    二十座重要城镇的割让。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Consequently, although now out of order and, as a treaty of cession, of a different character, the Walla Walla Treaty became the first legal step in addressing and altering this situation.
    • No less certain is that the Israeli army will keep having plenty of work to do, Israeli civilians will keep being endangered, and that the unilateral cession of Gaza set it all in motion.
    • The cession of Hong Kong, which Palmerston had never wanted, was no substitute for the opening of more ports to trade.
    • Its task was to ratify not only the annexation of the new territories, but the cession of Nice and Savoy, which had been decided by treaty on 24 March 1860 and endorsed, under the eyes of French troops, by plebiscite.
    • Strategically speaking, the Florida cession closed a vulnerable point in American coastal defenses.
    • A decade after Quebec's failed referendum on cession from the rest of Canada, people in the French-speaking province are once again fired up about the possibility of going their own way.
    • Article One was meaningful in 1840, both as a mark of consent and formal cession, and to signify to other colonial powers that this patch was taken, but it's difficult to see its relevance now in anything but a historical sense.
    • Outside this geographical core were many different types of attached or dependent territories, where links with the UK originated in migrations of peoples of British stock, or in variations of conquest or cession.
    • The Agenais was an important wine-growing area and its cession further strengthened the rapidly developing commercial links between Bordeaux and London.
    • The victors imposed a hard treaty which included the payment by China of a war indemnity and the cession to Japan of the Manchurian territory around Port Arthur.
    • If there was a special cessions protection, each cession of $2m would go to that treaty and the vertical limit of $5m would not matter; there would be no accumulations.
    • Although the San Juans had first been prospected by trespassers on Ute lands, it was not until after the 1874 cession of the San Juans via the Brunot Treaty that serious prospecting was undertaken in what would become the Telluride area.
    • Most Chickasaws settled primarily in three or four towns in the fertile BlackBelt Prairie (approximately 70 km east of Oxford) throughout most of the historic period before cession.
    • When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 the territory was briefly occupied by German troops, before its cession to Russia pursuant to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact.
    • In April 1899, a coaling station was built in Pago Pago harbor by the U. S. Navy, and in February 1900, a deed of cession was negotiated with Tutuila chiefs by Naval Commander B.F. Tilley.
    • But it did not cede Taiwan because among legal experts, there is a consensus that cession requires the stipulation of both donor and recipient.
    • The cession of Louisiana to Spain may be explained in this light, for Anglo-American ambitions beyond the Mississippi were already clear and it was hoped that Spain, with contiguous possessions, could better resist them than France.
    • But it's become pretty conspicuous since WWII, and became entrenched with the unconstitutional cession of power to the President in the War Powers Act.
    • It was the first in a long series of treaties that ceded tribal land to the United States; with each cession, the tribe was guaranteed unending ownership of their remaining land.
    • During the Hundred Days in 1810, the British once more occupied the island, but, in spite of its cession to Sweden by the treaty of 1813 and a French invasion in 1814, they did not withdraw till 1816.
    Synonyms
    surrender, surrendering, ceding, conceding, concession, relinquishment, yielding, giving up, handing over, transfer, transference, transferral, granting, grant, bequest
    resignation, abdication, abandonment, forgoing, forsaking, sacrifice, waiving, waiver, renunciation

Origin

Late Middle English; from Latin cessio(n-), from cedere 'cede'.

Rhymes

discretion, freshen, session

Definition of cession in US English:

cession

nounˈseSHənˈsɛʃən
  • The formal giving up of rights, property, or territory by a state.

    (权利或财产的)放弃;(领土的)割让

    the cession of twenty important towns

    二十座重要城镇的割让。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Consequently, although now out of order and, as a treaty of cession, of a different character, the Walla Walla Treaty became the first legal step in addressing and altering this situation.
    • But it did not cede Taiwan because among legal experts, there is a consensus that cession requires the stipulation of both donor and recipient.
    • Most Chickasaws settled primarily in three or four towns in the fertile BlackBelt Prairie (approximately 70 km east of Oxford) throughout most of the historic period before cession.
    • The cession of Hong Kong, which Palmerston had never wanted, was no substitute for the opening of more ports to trade.
    • A decade after Quebec's failed referendum on cession from the rest of Canada, people in the French-speaking province are once again fired up about the possibility of going their own way.
    • In April 1899, a coaling station was built in Pago Pago harbor by the U. S. Navy, and in February 1900, a deed of cession was negotiated with Tutuila chiefs by Naval Commander B.F. Tilley.
    • The victors imposed a hard treaty which included the payment by China of a war indemnity and the cession to Japan of the Manchurian territory around Port Arthur.
    • The cession of Louisiana to Spain may be explained in this light, for Anglo-American ambitions beyond the Mississippi were already clear and it was hoped that Spain, with contiguous possessions, could better resist them than France.
    • No less certain is that the Israeli army will keep having plenty of work to do, Israeli civilians will keep being endangered, and that the unilateral cession of Gaza set it all in motion.
    • Outside this geographical core were many different types of attached or dependent territories, where links with the UK originated in migrations of peoples of British stock, or in variations of conquest or cession.
    • Article One was meaningful in 1840, both as a mark of consent and formal cession, and to signify to other colonial powers that this patch was taken, but it's difficult to see its relevance now in anything but a historical sense.
    • If there was a special cessions protection, each cession of $2m would go to that treaty and the vertical limit of $5m would not matter; there would be no accumulations.
    • Strategically speaking, the Florida cession closed a vulnerable point in American coastal defenses.
    • During the Hundred Days in 1810, the British once more occupied the island, but, in spite of its cession to Sweden by the treaty of 1813 and a French invasion in 1814, they did not withdraw till 1816.
    • The Agenais was an important wine-growing area and its cession further strengthened the rapidly developing commercial links between Bordeaux and London.
    • Its task was to ratify not only the annexation of the new territories, but the cession of Nice and Savoy, which had been decided by treaty on 24 March 1860 and endorsed, under the eyes of French troops, by plebiscite.
    • But it's become pretty conspicuous since WWII, and became entrenched with the unconstitutional cession of power to the President in the War Powers Act.
    • It was the first in a long series of treaties that ceded tribal land to the United States; with each cession, the tribe was guaranteed unending ownership of their remaining land.
    • When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 the territory was briefly occupied by German troops, before its cession to Russia pursuant to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact.
    • Although the San Juans had first been prospected by trespassers on Ute lands, it was not until after the 1874 cession of the San Juans via the Brunot Treaty that serious prospecting was undertaken in what would become the Telluride area.
    Synonyms
    surrender, surrendering, ceding, conceding, concession, relinquishment, yielding, giving up, handing over, transfer, transference, transferral, granting, grant, bequest

Origin

Late Middle English; from Latin cessio(n-), from cedere ‘cede’.

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