Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To go back; recede.
- intransitive verb To cede or give back (a territory, for example); return.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go back; recede; retire; give place. Blount, Glossographia.
- To cede or grant back; restore to the former possession or control: as, to
retrocede territory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cede or grant back.
- intransitive verb To go back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
grant back . - verb transitive To go back.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I support a plan that would take the residential areas and retrocede them back into potentially the state of Maryland.
Freshman from Utah is making a name for himself Joe Davidson 2010
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Later, Congress agreed to retrocede the portion of the District south of the Potomac to Virginia, but the man-made southeast, northeast and northwest borders with Maryland remained.
District streets that border states create jurisdictional confusion 2010
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However, the right thing to do would be to retrocede the non-enclave territory to Maryland.
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Later, Congress agreed to retrocede the portion of the District south of the Potomac to Virginia, but the man-made southeast, northeast and northwest borders with Maryland remained.
District streets that border states create jurisdictional confusion Karen Tanner Allen 2010
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If Congress decides to retrocede some or all of the district to the donor state, it's not clear to me that the donor state can decline, and it's abundantly clear that Congress can coerce them to.
I don't know how even to articulate an argument that it's constitutional to give a vote to a D.C. representative in the House. Ann Althouse 2009
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Maryland can retrocede their portion and gain an additional House member.
I don't know how even to articulate an argument that it's constitutional to give a vote to a D.C. representative in the House. Ann Althouse 2009
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Make them a state, retrocede them to Maryland, or amend the Constitution for some other solution.
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Maryland can't retrocede their portion of the district - they already ceded it and it's now in the posession of the feds, so the right of retrocession belongs to the federal government.
I don't know how even to articulate an argument that it's constitutional to give a vote to a D.C. representative in the House. Ann Althouse 2009
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Maryland can retrocede their portion and gain an additional House member.
I don't know how even to articulate an argument that it's constitutional to give a vote to a D.C. representative in the House. Ann Althouse 2009
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Indeed, I would be happy to retrocede DC back into Maryland, just like Arlington long ago returned to Virginia.
Let DC Vote 2006
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