cede
pronunciation
How to pronounce cede in British English:
UK [si:d]
How to pronounce cede in American English:
US [sid]
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- Verb:
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- relinquish possession or control over
Word Origin
- cede
- cede: [17] Cede comes, either directly or via French céder, from Latin cēdere ‘go away, withdraw, yield’. The Latin verb provided the basis for a surprisingly wide range of English words: the infinitive form produced, for instance, accede, concede, precede, proceed, and succeed, while the past participle cessus has given ancestor, cease, excess, recession, etc.=> accede, ancestor, cease, concession, excess, necessary, proceed, recession, succeed
- cede (v.)
- 1630s, from French céder or directly from Latin cedere "to yield, give place; to give up some right or property," originally "to go from, proceed, leave," from Proto-Italic *kesd-o- "to go away, avoid," from PIE root *sed- (2) "to go, yield" (cognates: Sanskrit sedhati "to drive; chase away;" Avestan apa-had- "turn aside, step aside;" Greek hodos "way," hodites "wanderer, wayfarer;" Old Church Slavonic chodu "a walking, going," choditi "to go"). Related: Ceded; ceding. The sense evolution in Latin is via the notion of "to go away, withdraw, give ground."
Example
- 1. Previous attempts to cede day-to-day control have been aborted .
- 2. The chinese state-owned firms did not need capital so badly that they were prepared to cede control to foreigners .
- 3. In return , congo would cede majority rights in a joint venture to develop copper and cobalt concessions .
- 4. Ultimately , the rise of asia may force the west to cede power , but it is not going to do so gracefully .
- 5. For all the grand rhetoric , no politician is proposing to cede sovereignty to a global regulator , let alone create a true global lender of last resort . Nor is anyone proposing a wholesale effort to curb capital flows ( which is just as well ) .