retrocession
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See also: rétrocession
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare French rétrocession. See retrocede.
Noun[edit]
retrocession (countable and uncountable, plural retrocessions)
- The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
- (law) The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
- Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
- The act of retroceding; a going back.
- 1878, The planisphere: and how to use it:
- For example, suppose the Moon to be placed in 10° of any sign: suppose Saturn to pass over that spot and attain to the 15th degree of the same sign, and there become stationary; that his retrocession carries him back to the 8th degree, […]
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Danish[edit]
Noun[edit]
retrocession c (singular definite retrocessionen, plural indefinite retrocessioner)
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Declension[edit]
Declension of retrocession
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | retrocession | retrocessionen | retrocessioner | retrocessionerne |
| genitive | retrocessions | retrocessionens | retrocessioners | retrocessionernes |