noun concession; compliance.
2. cession ·noun a yielding to physical force.
3. cession ·noun the voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
4. cession ·noun the giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
5. cession ·noun a yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.