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concessionals

concessionals is the plural of concessional.

Meaning of concessional

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

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Questions about concessionals

What is concessionals the plural of?
Concessionals is the plural of concessional.

Words near concessionals in the dictionary

  1. concessionaire
  2. concessionaires
  3. concessional
  4. concessionalities
  5. concessionality
  6. concessionals
  7. concessionaries
  8. concessionarily
  9. concessionary
  10. concessioned
  11. concessioner

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