Plural form of cessionaire; multiple people or entities who receive property, rights, or territory through cessions.
Simple plural of cessionaire, maintaining the French-derived legal terminology in English.
When you read about territorial negotiations in history, cessionaries were often entire nations or communities whose fate depended on whether powerful nations made them the recipients of land or stripped it away—the word matters because it shows who had agency.
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