surrender
Definitions
General English
- noun giving in to an enemy because you have lost
- verb to accept that you have been defeated by someone else
Accounting
- noun the act of giving up of an insurance policy before the contracted date for maturity
Law
- noun the abandonment of legal rights, especially the giving up of a lease or an insurance policy before it has expired
- verb to give in a document or a right
Military
- verb to stop fighting and hand oneself over to the enemy
Politics
- verb to hand over something to someone
Origin & History of “surrender”
To
surrender is etymologically to ‘give up’. The
word was borrowed
from Old French
surrendre ‘deliver
over,
give up’, a
compound verb formed from the prefix
sur- ‘over’ and
rendre ‘give, deliver’ (
source of
English render).
