Retrocede vs Redeem - What's the difference?
retrocede | redeem |
To grant back.
To go back.
* 1994 , David F Drake, Reforming the health care market: an interpretive economic history
To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
To liberate by payment of a ransom.
To set free by force.
To save, rescue
To clear, release from debt or blame
To expiate, atone (for ...)
(finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash
To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
To repair, restore
To reform, change (for the better)
To restore the reputation or honour of oneself or something.
(archaic) To reclaim
As verbs the difference between retrocede and redeem
is that retrocede is while redeem is to recover ownership of something by buying it back.retrocede
English
Verb
(en-verb)- to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor
- Hospitals retrenched in the '30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era.