cede the field

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To withdraw from a military confrontation; to yield control of a battlefield to one's opponent.
2. fiil To withdraw from any confrontational or potentially confrontational situation; to avoid participating in a competition or contest.

   “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.”