cede the field

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cede the field

verb cedes the field · ceding the field · ceded the field · yield the field

To withdraw from a military confrontation; to yield control of a battlefield to one's opponent.
Similar: give ground
broadly, idiomatic To withdraw from any confrontational or potentially confrontational situation; to avoid participating in a competition or contest. In some smokestack industries—steel, machine tools and especially cars—the choice was to raise productivity and quality a lot or cede the field to the competition, as American companies did in consumer electronics.

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@misc{cede_the_field_2026,
  title = {cede the field},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cede%20the%20field},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}