Definition
To withdraw from any confrontational or potentially confrontational situation; to avoid participating in a competition or contest.
In Context
- "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."
- "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.""
- "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."