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- v give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- v relinquish possession or control over
- Then they cede control to the feds--but not entirely.
- He had been director of the Central Intelligence Agency for just seven months when the onetime CIA spy had to cede much of his power to the new director of national intelligence .
- Most in the company wanted to cede the battlefield, but Kutaragi believed Sony could go it alone; he led an in-house splinter cell that developed a new game console from scratch.