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Cede the field

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

    "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."

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