ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Retrocession

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Retrocession is a noun meaning The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.

Meaning

The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.

More Meanings

  1. (law) The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
  2. Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
  3. The act of retroceding; a going back.

Example Sentences

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, […]

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include restitution, handover, recovery, restoration, return, rollback.

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