- cede something (to somebody)
to give somebody control of something or give them power, a right, etc., especially unwillingly 割让；让给；转让 Cuba was ceded by Spain to the US in 1898. 1898年西班牙被迫把对古巴的控制权交给美国。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCede is used with these nouns as the object:- authority
- control
- sovereignty
- …
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from French céder or Latin cedere ‘to yield’.