secede - Definition from the ORGANIZATIONS topic - SOCIETY

Topic: ORGANIZATIONS

Date:	1700-1800
Language:	Latin
Origin:	secedere 'to go apart', from cedere 'to go'

secede
verb

se‧cede

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[intransitive] formal

SSO if a country or state secedes from another country, it officially stops being part of it and becomes independent

secede from

American English

By 1861, 11 states had seceded from the Union.

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