cession

From Middle French cession, from Latin cessionem, from past participle of cēdere (“to yield”). By surface analysis, cede +‎ -sion.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛʃən
• Homophone: session

cession (countable and uncountable, plural cessions)

1. That which is ceded.
   1. A risk, or part of one, which is transferred from one actor to another.

      The reinsurance company accepted a 25% cession from the direct insurer.

2. The giving up of rights, property etc. which one is entitled to.
   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 228:

     […] Rashleigh, whose occasions frequently call him elsewhere, has generously made a cession of his rights in my favour; so that I now endeavour to prosecute alone the studies in which he used formerly to be my guide.

• Encisos, Inscoes, cosines, oscines

Learned borrowing from Latin cessiō.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.sjɔ̃/ ~ /se.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Homophones: session, cessions

cession f (plural cessions)

1. cession

• céder
• rétrocession

• “cession”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

cession c

1. cession, bankruptcy

• konkurs

• session