concession
Syllables: con·ces·sion/kənˈsɛʃən/
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concession noun: the act of conceding.
Noun
concession (usually uncountable, plural concessions)
- The act of conceding.
- Any parsone, prest or clerk, havyng any benefice... by wey of presentation, donation, concession, collation or institution.c. 1472, October, Rolls of Parliament, Edward IV, 2nd Roll, §8
- In this country... civil war has been forestalled by opportune concession.1876, James Bowling Mozley, Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford, v, 130
- A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
- But these concessions failed, as I believe concessions to evil always do fail.1865, John Bright, Speeches of John Bright, M.P., on the American Question,, page 174
- A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
- A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
- The French Concession in Shanghai
- A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
- The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
- A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
- A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concessions stands.
- Synonyms:
- franchise
- A preferential tax rate.
- A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
- An admission of the validity of an opponent's point in order to build an argument upon it or to move on to another of greater importance; an instance of this.
- Synonyms:
- concessio
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- Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
- An admission of defeat following an election.
- Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time... tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.2000 December 13, Al Gore, Concession Speech
- A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
- A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
- An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
- A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
Verb
concession (third-person singular simple present concessions, present participle concessioning, simple past and past participle concessioned)
- To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.
- While the process of bringing the private sector into the railroad industry in Vietnam is probably not going to be a single step, several countries have pursued the path of concessioning their rail operations in order to reduce the public fiscal burden associated with rail subsidization and to...2000, Private Solutions for Infrastructure: Opportunities for Vietnam, World Bank Publications, →ISBN, page 82
- [A] consultant was contracted for one year to prepare the legal and administrative framework for concessioning selected roads to the private sector and is expected to complete the framework in July 2005.2007, International Monetary Fund, Kenya: Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual Progress Report - 2003/2004, International Monetary Fund, page 24
concession meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
concession in Tamil
- சலுகை
concession in Marathi
- concession, discount
- सवलत savlat
concession in Urdu
- عطا, پاس داری, رعایت
concession in Bengali
- ছাড়, স্বীকৃতি
More languagesFewer languages
- concession in Telugu
- రాయితీ
- concession in Malayalam
- ഓശാരം ōśāraṁ, ഉപചാരം upacāraṁ
- concession in Kannada
- ಸವಲತ್ತು savalattu
- concession in Punjabi
- ਰਿਆਇਤ, ਰਿਆਇਤੀ
- concession in Nepali
- रियायत
- concession in Malay
- konsesi
- concession in Indonesian
- konsesi
Examples of concession in a sentence
- The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.
- No one realized that propane gas was leaking from a rusty tank in the concession area, slowly filling the unventilated room.
- As a trapeze performer, she generally worked in the big top, but due to her injury, she was stuck working concessions.
Synonyms of concession
Forms of concession
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | concessions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | concessions |
| present participle | concessioning |
| past participle | concessioned |
| past | concessioned |
Origin of concession
From late Middle English concession, from Middle French concession, from Latin concessiō (“a grant, permission, conceding”), from concēdō. Doublet of concessio.
Words formed from concession
Phrases with concession
Questions about concession
- What does concession mean?
- Concession means the act of conceding.
- What is concession in Tamil?
- Concession in Tamil is சலுகை. See Concession meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is concession?
- Concession can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce concession?
- Concession is pronounced /kənˈsɛʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of concession?
- The plural of concession is concessions.
Words near concession in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: concession (page history and authors); concession (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सवलत (Marathi) (page history and authors); concession (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concession (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concession (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ഉപചാരം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಸವಲತ್ತು (Kannada) (page history and authors); concession (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); concession (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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