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(1):

(n.) Concession; compliance.

(2):

(n.) A yielding to physical force.

(3):

(n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.

(4):

(n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

(5):

(n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.