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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-472/
- Published: 2021-05-14T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-01T19:37:55.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

The word for today is…

cede (verb) –  
1 : to yield or grant typically by treaty  
2 : assign, transfer

Source :[ Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cede?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 1630s, “to yield, give way,” 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,”  
Cede is often a formal term used in discussing territory and rights, but is also used less formally. So, for example, Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the U.S. in 1898, following the Spanish-American War, and the U.S. ceded control of the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999\. Critics warn that we are ceding leadership in alternative-energy technology to China. Citizens of one European country or another are always worrying that their own country is ceding too much power to the European Union. A tennis player doesn’t have any choice when he cedes his no. 1 ranking to a rival.

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