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concessional

concessional adjective: of, relating to, or being a concession; concessionary.

Adjective

concessional (comparative more concessional, superlative most concessional)

  1. Of, relating to, or being a concession; concessionary.

Noun

concessional (plural concessionals)

  1. (Australia) A resident of a nursing home who has limited means and whose accommodation is consequently partly paid for by the government.
    • Every weekend and after work she'd done the rounds of the nursing homes. All are bound by law to take a percentage of 'concessionals'. But the waiting lists! On one he's placed at seventy-five.2005, Celeste Walters, Deception, page 119
  2. Synonym of concessive.
    • […] where the subordinate clause expresses a contingency that applies to the main clause — timing and placing, conditionals, concessionals and all the other kinds of so-called adverbial clauses.2004, John Sinclair, Ronald Carter, Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse (page 110)
    Synonyms:
    concessive

concessional meaning in Tamil

concessional in Tamil

சலுகையுள்ள, சலுகையுடன்கூடிய

Synonyms of concessional

Forms of concessional

Adjective
comparativemore concessional
superlativemost concessional
Noun
pluralconcessionals

Origin of concessional

From concession + -al.

Questions about concessional

What does concessional mean?
Concessional means of, relating to, or being a concession; concessionary.
What is concessional in Tamil?
Concessional in Tamil is சலுகையுள்ள, சலுகையுடன்கூடிய. See Concessional meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is concessional?
Concessional can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near concessional in the dictionary

  1. concession stands
  2. concession-contraexpectation
  3. concession-counter-expectation
  4. concessionaire
  5. concessionaires
  6. concessional
  7. concessionalities
  8. concessionality
  9. concessionals
  10. concessionaries
  11. concessionarily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: concessional (page history and authors); concessional (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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