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cessions

cessions is the plural of cession.

Meaning of cession

Noun

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.
    • […] 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.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...

Questions about cessions

What is cessions the plural of?
Cessions is the plural of cession.

Words near cessions in the dictionary

  1. cessing
  2. cessio bonorum
  3. cession
  4. cessionaries
  5. cessionary
  6. cessions
  7. cessment
  8. cessments
  9. Cessna
  10. Cessnas
  11. Cessnock

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