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譲渡 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • assign verb To give a specific task, role, or place to someone.
  • assignment noun A task given to someone, especially a piece of schoolwork or a work project.
  • cede verb To formally give up land, rights, or power to someone else.
  • grant verb To give someone permission, a right, or something they have asked for.
  • pass verb To move from one place, position, or state to another.
  • surrender verb To stop fighting or resisting and give oneself up to an opponent.

Senses

譲渡 is used for these senses in English:

  • assign (transitive, legal) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
  • assignment (legal) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
  • cede (transitive) To give up; yield to another. [with to]
  • grant (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.
  • pass (intransitive, legal) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
  • surrender An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
  • surrender The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
  • surrender (legal, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.

assign — full definition

  1. verb To give a specific task, role, or place to someone.
  2. verb To transfer property, a right, or a value to someone or something else.

assignment — full definition

  1. noun A task given to someone, especially a piece of schoolwork or a work project.
  2. noun The legal transfer of a right, property, or benefit from one person to another.

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