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cede
To give up, especially by treaty; yield.
🌱Their 88-year-old father reluctantly ceded control over his finances to two of the children this year. 🌳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 she cedes her no. 1 ranking to a rival. concede To admit grudgingly; yield.
🌱To his friends, Senator Beasley concedes that his reelection campaign was badly run and that he made several damaging errors. 🌳After the votes have been counted, one candidate traditionally concedes the election to his or her opponent by giving a concession speech. If you're lucky, your boss will concede that she was wrong the last time she criticized you. But in the middle of an argument, we're not all so good at conceding that the other guy might have a good point. accede 1、 To give in to a request or demand.
2、 To give approval or consent.
🌱This time Congress refused to accede to the demands of the president, and began cutting the funding for the war. 🌳To accede usually means to yield, often under pressure and with some reluctance, to the needs or requests of others. Voters usually accede to a tax increase only when they're convinced it's the only real solution to a shortfall in government funding. A patient may accede to surgery only after the doctor assures him it's better than the alternatives. If you accede to your spouse's plea to watch the new reality show at 9:00, you may get to choose something better at 10:00. precedent Something done or said that may be an example or rule to guide later acts of a similar kind.
🌱When Judy bought Christmas presents for all her relatives one year, she claimed that it set no precedent, but it did. 🌳A precedent is something that precedes, or comes before. The Supreme Court relies on precedents—that is, earlier laws or decisions that provide some example or rule to guide them in the case they're actually deciding. When hostages are being held for ransom, a government may worry about setting a bad precedent if it gives in. And a company might "break with precedent" by naming a foreigner as its president for the first time.
🌱Their 88-year-old father reluctantly ceded control over his finances to two of the children this year. 🌳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 she cedes her no. 1 ranking to a rival. concede To admit grudgingly; yield.
🌱To his friends, Senator Beasley concedes that his reelection campaign was badly run and that he made several damaging errors. 🌳After the votes have been counted, one candidate traditionally concedes the election to his or her opponent by giving a concession speech. If you're lucky, your boss will concede that she was wrong the last time she criticized you. But in the middle of an argument, we're not all so good at conceding that the other guy might have a good point. accede 1、 To give in to a request or demand.
2、 To give approval or consent.
🌱This time Congress refused to accede to the demands of the president, and began cutting the funding for the war. 🌳To accede usually means to yield, often under pressure and with some reluctance, to the needs or requests of others. Voters usually accede to a tax increase only when they're convinced it's the only real solution to a shortfall in government funding. A patient may accede to surgery only after the doctor assures him it's better than the alternatives. If you accede to your spouse's plea to watch the new reality show at 9:00, you may get to choose something better at 10:00. precedent Something done or said that may be an example or rule to guide later acts of a similar kind.
🌱When Judy bought Christmas presents for all her relatives one year, she claimed that it set no precedent, but it did. 🌳A precedent is something that precedes, or comes before. The Supreme Court relies on precedents—that is, earlier laws or decisions that provide some example or rule to guide them in the case they're actually deciding. When hostages are being held for ransom, a government may worry about setting a bad precedent if it gives in. And a company might "break with precedent" by naming a foreigner as its president for the first time.
CED comes from the Latin verb cedere, meaning "to proceed" or "to yield." Proceed itself employs the root, as does recede, and their related nouns procession and recession employ another form of the Latin verb.🌸