retrocession
Noun
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Noun
retrocession
- The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
- (legal) 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, […]
- 1878, The planisphere: and how to use it
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