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Do you cede or seed control?
Cede means "to yield or grant typically by treaty." Most of the verb senses of seed are concerned with planting seeds (either literal, as of plants, or figuratively, as of ideas). However, the word may also be used to mean "to schedule (tournament players or teams) so that superior ones will not meet in early rounds." If you relinquish or yield something you are ceding it, and if you are organizing the participants in a tournament you are seeding them.
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Cede is often a formal term used in discussing territory and rights, but is also used less formally. So, for example, Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the U.S. in 1898, following the Spanish-American War, and the U.S. ceded control of the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999. Critics warn that we are ceding leadership in alternative-energy technology to China. Citizens of one European country or another are always worrying that their own country is ceding too much power to the European Union. A tennis player doesn't have any choice when she cedes her no. 1 ranking to a rival.
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Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Summer days in the high mountains cede to relaxing evenings on the casual confines of Main Street.
—James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
Premiums ceded for the quarter were $109,694,000, representing 41.3% of gross premiums earned, compared to 35.1% in the same quarter of the previous year.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
The buildup follows what observers say were long-standing efforts by China to convince Bhutan’s leaders to cede their claims in the west around Doklam – in exchange for Beijing giving up its claims to the northern areas.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Cede.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cede. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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