How to pronounce “cede the field”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (military) To withdraw from a military confrontation; to yield control of a battlefield to one's opponent.
• (idiomatic, by extension) To withdraw from any confrontational or potentially confrontational situation; to avoid participating in a competition or contest.

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