cession
- n the act of ceding
- This meant the cession of the Kars region (with the town of Ardahan) to Russia.
- The Communist-run government of postwar Poland behaved as if the cession of the disputed territory (including coal, iron and grain-rich Silesia) were final then there.
- Cession of the Saar and other Rhineland industrial areas to France; cession of East Prussia to Poland.