Retrocession vs Recede - What's the difference?

As a noun retrocession

is retrocession.

(wikipedia retrocession)

The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.

The return of land, etc. that was previously ceded.

Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.

(reced)

To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

* Dryden

Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.

* Bentley

All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.

To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.

to recede conquered territory

To take back.

* withdraw

* receding

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