"cede the field" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cedes the field",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceding the field",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceded the field",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceded the field",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cede the field (third-person singular simple present cedes the field, present participle ceding the field, simple past and past participle ceded the field)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To withdraw from a military confrontation; to yield control of a battlefield to one's opponent."
      ],
      "id": "en-cede_the_field-en-verb-VA-kXqb8",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "withdraw",
          "withdraw"
        ],
        [
          "confrontation",
          "confrontation"
        ],
        [
          "battlefield",
          "battlefield"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) To withdraw from a military confrontation; to yield control of a battlefield to one's opponent."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "word": "chicken out"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "word": "turn tail"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "67 33",
          "word": "give ground"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 33",
          "word": "yield the field"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994 February 27, Sylvia Nasar, “The American Economy, Back on Top”, in New York Times, retrieved 2019-08-08",
          "text": "In some smokestack industries—steel, machine tools and especially cars—the choice was to raise productivity and quality a lot or cede the field to the competition, as American companies did in consumer electronics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 September 10, Judy Woodruff, McClintock: \"I'm in this race right to the finish line\", CNN, retrieved 2019-09-23",
          "text": "State Senator McClintock appeared on CNN's Inside Politics on Tuesday and told me he had no intention of following Ueberroth's lead and ceding the field to Schwarzenegger: \"I'm in this race right to the finish line.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 24, Jean-Louis Gassée, “Microsoft and Nokia won't beget a Google-Motorola clone”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2019-08-12",
          "text": "And what will happen to Windows Phone? […] One can't imagine that Ballmer will call it a day and cede the field to Google and Apple.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To withdraw from any confrontational or potentially confrontational situation; to avoid participating in a competition or contest."
      ],
      "id": "en-cede_the_field-en-verb-1mzXpj7u",
      "links": [
        [
          "confrontation",
          "confrontation"
        ],
        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ],
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ],
        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, by extension) To withdraw from any confrontational or potentially confrontational situation; to avoid participating in a competition or contest."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cede the field"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cedes the field",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceding the field",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceded the field",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ceded the field",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cede the field (third-person singular simple present cedes the field, present participle ceding the field, simple past and past participle ceded the field)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "chicken out"
    },
    {
      "word": "turn tail"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To withdraw from a military confrontation; to yield control of a battlefield to one's opponent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "withdraw",
          "withdraw"
        ],
        [
          "confrontation",
          "confrontation"
        ],
        [
          "battlefield",
          "battlefield"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) To withdraw from a military confrontation; to yield control of a battlefield to one's opponent."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994 February 27, Sylvia Nasar, “The American Economy, Back on Top”, in New York Times, retrieved 2019-08-08",
          "text": "In some smokestack industries—steel, machine tools and especially cars—the choice was to raise productivity and quality a lot or cede the field to the competition, as American companies did in consumer electronics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 September 10, Judy Woodruff, McClintock: \"I'm in this race right to the finish line\", CNN, retrieved 2019-09-23",
          "text": "State Senator McClintock appeared on CNN's Inside Politics on Tuesday and told me he had no intention of following Ueberroth's lead and ceding the field to Schwarzenegger: \"I'm in this race right to the finish line.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 24, Jean-Louis Gassée, “Microsoft and Nokia won't beget a Google-Motorola clone”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2019-08-12",
          "text": "And what will happen to Windows Phone? […] One can't imagine that Ballmer will call it a day and cede the field to Google and Apple.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To withdraw from any confrontational or potentially confrontational situation; to avoid participating in a competition or contest."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "confrontation",
          "confrontation"
        ],
        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ],
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ],
        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, by extension) To withdraw from any confrontational or potentially confrontational situation; to avoid participating in a competition or contest."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "give ground"
    },
    {
      "word": "yield the field"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cede the field"
}