The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrocession \Re`tro*ces"sion\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]trocession. See Retrocede.]
The act of retroceding.
The state of being retroceded, or granted back.
(Med.) Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another. 2 The return of land, etc. that was previously ceded. 3 metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
Wikipedia
Retrocession is the return of something (e.g., land) that was ceded in general or, specifically:
Examples:
- District of Columbia retrocession, the retrocession to Virginia, and potentially to Maryland, of the land ceded to create the District of Columbia
- Retrocession of Louisiana (New Spain) from Spain to France, formally accomplished just three weeks before the U.S. received the Louisiana Purchase lands from France
- Taiwan retrocession, the retrocession of Taiwan from Japan to China in 1945; See Taiwan under Japanese rule
- Retrocession Day, an annual observance and unofficial holiday in Taiwan
In insurance, retrocessional arrangements generally are governed by a reinsurance or retrocessional agreement and the principles applicable to reinsurance also are applicable to retrocessional cover.
Usage examples of "retrocession".
So South Carolina, after leading the way to secession on December 20,1860, at once began to work for the retrocession of the forts defending her famous cotton port of Charleston.
Reitz, then a judge of the Orange Free State, in Bloemfontein between seventeen and eighteen years ago, shortly after the retrocession of the Transvaal, and when he was busy establishing the Afrikander Bond.
It was known as Retrocession Day, and Taiwan became a part of the Republic of China.
I did, and there was a low fellow on board who had been ruined by the retrocession of the Transvaal, and who, hearing that I was in the Government, took every possible opportunity to tell me publicly that his wife and children were almost in a state of starvation, as though I cared about his confounded wife and children.
In consequence of the Retrocession he returned to England in the autumn of 1881.
I been reinstated, we should have had the pleasure, as I have shown, of going through the siege of Pretoria, and on the Retrocession I should have been dismissed from my office without compensation, as I believe happened to the gentleman who succeeded me.
Here I will end my story during the year and a half or so that I was absent from South Africa, and pass on to the sad tale of the Retrocession of the Transvaal.
It was a strange fate which decreed that the Retrocession of the Transvaal, over which I had myself hoisted the British flag, should be practically accomplished beneath my roof.
Instead he demanded the retrocession of the Vexm and the marriage of the unfortunate Alais.
In the sudden retrocession of cutaneous diseases, it restores the eruptions to the surface and gives speedy relief.
I do not enter into the mathematical analysis of modern geologists respecting them, as to their constant retrocession, believing that earthquake split open the present channel, yet I have no doubt that the level of Lake Erie is considerably affected by the diminution of the yielding shaly rocks of their foundation.
He was like neither his father nor his mother, but a retrocession, too big, too clumsy, too slow of thought and speech to be considered truly one of a space-voyaging generation.
Those next times I had spoken of to Jane Highmore, I see them simplified by retrocession.