English Explanatory Dictionary

retrocession

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
  2. The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
  3. Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
  4. The act of retroceding; a going back.

Word forms

retrocession retrocessions

Etymology

Compare French rétrocession. See retrocede.

Related words

retrocede retrocess retrocessional

Derived words

retrocessionist
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