1. (n.) Concession; compliance; surrender; yielding to physical force; as, cession of a territory to a hostile country\.

2. (n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.

3. (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

4. (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

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