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Definitions: RETROCESSION |
RETROCESSIONNoun1. Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body. 2. The state of being retroceded, or granted back. 3. The act of retroceding. |
Date "RETROCESSION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Insurance | The act of a reinsuring company that has accepted a risk in again reinsuring the risk with still another company. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Recession | Noun: recession, retirement, withdrawal; retreat; retrocession; departure; recoil; flight; (avoidance). |
Regression | Noun: regress, regression; retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction; reculade; retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration; recession; (motion from); recess; crab-like motion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Moldova | There is a demand for life, accident and health insurance services, non-life insurance services, and reinsurance and retrocession services. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
retrocession | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RETROCESSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отстъпване (assentation, back track, compliance, concession, remise, retreat, submission, surrender, yielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | rétrocession (recession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Rückübertragung (assignment back, back transfer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντιπαραχώρηση, αντεκχώρηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | retrocessione (demotion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | cooyl-ghleashaght (retreat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etrocessionray retrocedare. (various references) iade (giving back, rebate, rendering, restoration, return, surrender), geriye gitme (going back, retrogadation, retrogression, return), gerileme (comedown, decadence, declension, decline, downgrade, recession, recessional, regress, regression, retreat, retrogadation, retrogression, setback, throwback, withdrawal), geri verme (give back, reimbursement, repayment, restoration, return). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "RETROCESSION": retrocessions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "RETROCESSION" (pronounced 'Re`tro*ces"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: intercessor. | |
-2 letters: corsetries, cortisones, intercross, resections, secretions. | |
-3 letters: cortisone, creosotes, erections, inserters, neoterics, oestrones, orneriest, recession, rectories, reinserts, reorients, resection, resorcins, secretins, secretion, secretors, seicentos, serotines, sincerest, sorceries, tricornes. | |
-4 letters: centesis, cisterns, cistrons, coesites, cointers, conioses, consorts, coonties, corniest, coroners, coronets, coteries, creosote, crooners, crosiers, crosstie, ecotones, enticers, erection, erectors, erosions, esoteric, essonite, estrones. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: controversies, retrocessions. | |
+2 letters: conservatoires, conservatories, nonsecretories, oversecretions, retrospections, scleroproteins. | |
+3 letters: corticosterones, neurosecretions, nonintercourses, reconsecrations. | |
+4 letters: interconversions, postresurrection, reconsiderations, reorchestrations. | |
+5 letters: counteraggression, counterterrorisms, counterterrorists, cryopreservations, overprescriptions, postresurrections. | |
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