Retrocession

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  • n. The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
  • n. The return of land, etc. that was previously ceded.
  • n. Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of retroceding.
  • n. The state of being retroceded, or granted back.
  • n. Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A going back or inward; relapse.
  • n. In medicine, the disappearance or metastasis of a tumor, an eruption, etc., from the surface of the body inward.
  • n. A sloping backward; a backward inclination or progression; a retreating outline, form, or position.
  • n. The act of retroceding or giving back; in Scots law, the reconveyance of any right by an assignee back to the assignor, who thus recovers his former right by becoming the assignee of his own assignee.
  • n. In geometry, inflection.
  • n. In civil law, a reconveyance of heritable rights to the original grantor.
    • Word Usage
    "That all said, I believe a broad reading of the Constitution says retrocession is the preferred path to follow."
    Cross Reference
    retrocession of the equinoxes   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hessian    accession    aggression    compression    concession   
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