To transfer a portion of the underwritten risk an insurance company writes to a reinsurance company for a premium.

To pass on to another insurer (the reinsurer) all or part of the insurance written by an insurer (the ceding insurer) with the object of reducing the possible liability of the latter.

To transfer to a REINSURER all or part of a risk undertaken by an insurer.

To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

To formally surrender ownership or control of something to another party, as in the cession of land by treaty.

give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

COMMITTED EFFECTIVE DOSE EQUIVALENT. The sum of the products of the weighting factors applicable to each of the body organs or tissues that are irradiated and the CDE to these organs or tissues.

Committed Effective Dose Equivalent. HE (Internal). Sum of the products of the weighting factors and committed dose equivalent to each of the body organs or tissues that are irradiated.

v. To pass title to.

to give up or to hand over