Session vs Cession - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between session and cession

is that session is a period devoted to a particular activity while cession is that which is ceded. Insurance: (part of) a risk which is transferred from one actor to another.

session

English

Noun

(en noun)

A period devoted to a particular activity.

a training session

"Are we having a recording session'''?" / "Yes. We've even got some '''session musicians to provide some brass."

A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.

This court is now in session .

(computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session .

(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.

(obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

* Hooker

So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

* Tennyson

But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, / Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.

Derived terms

* bull session * session ale, session beer, session bitter * sessionless

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cession

English

Noun

(en noun)

That which is ceded. Insurance: (part of) a risk which is transferred from one actor to another.

The reinsurance company accepted a 25% cession from the direct insurer.

The giving up of rights, property etc. which one is entitled to.

* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , X:

‘Rashleigh, whose occasions frequently call him elsewhere, has generously made a cession of his rights in my favour; so that I now endeavour to prosecute alone the studies in which he used formerly to be my guide.’

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