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• The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.From the entry gravy
• No one realized that propane gas was leaking from a rusty tank in the concession area, slowly filling the unventilated room.From the entry leak
• As a trapeze performer, she generally worked in the big top, but due to her injury, she was stuck working concessions.From the entry big top
• Granting monopolies in concession constitutes a market-conform alternative to taxation for the state, while the crown sometimes bestowed a monopoly as an outrageous gift.From the entry monopoly
• Under the law and concession agreement with other parties, the private company must pay taxes in time and on a right amount.From the entry under
• One response from the trade perspective is that the WTO is not authorizing trade sanctions, but rather countermeasures to reequilibrate the balance of negotiated trade concessions.From the entry reequilibrate
• That is, start to renegotiate, gain some minor concessions then declare victory bigly.2017 July 18, Tim Worstall, “Trump's Nafta Renegotiation - Insist On Minor Changes, Declare Victory Bigly”, in Forbes. From the entry bigly
• Second, the representative can play good cop–bad cop in order to manipulate concessions from other negotiators.2012, Susan S. Raines, Conflict Management for Managers: Resolving Workplace, Client, and Policy Disputes, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry good cop–bad cop
• No, Oom Paul said after each new concession, no, no further.2007, Ingrid Winterbach, translated by Elsa Silke, To Hell with Cronjé, page 55. From the entry bloody hell
• Vada pav sandwiches and mango kulfi were sold at the concession stand.2007 January 3, Kareem Fahim, “For Some Moviegoers, It’s ‘Hooray for Bollywood’”, in New York Times. From the entry kulfi
• Genevievians, to obtain their own large concessions for mineral land, an action previously deemed unnecessary.2002, Walter A. Schroeder, Opening the Ozarks: A Historical Geography of Missouri’s Ste. Genevieve District, 1760-1830, Columbia, Mo.…. From the entry Ste. Genevievian
• I screamed out a concession and the kids, disgruntled, wandered back to their own games.1971, Steven Daniels, How 2 Gerbils, 20 Goldfish, 200 Games, 2000 Books, and I Taught Them How to Read. From the entry mismove
• Instead they made capital of Japanese pressure by seeking political concessions at Nanking.1938, T. A. Bisson, Japan in China, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 62. From the entry Suiyuan
• Uncle Tom is there, as a concession to me, and very proudsome and distinguished he looks in evening formal.2010, Robert A. Heinlein, Podkayne of Mars. From the entry proudsome
• Stuffed in a corner behind my whomper shield is a pair of hemp underwear, my fashion concession for the Greenies.2010, Adrienne Maria Vrettos, chapter 15, in The Exile of Gigi Lane, Margaret K. McElderry Books, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry whomper
• The consequence of an unsuccessful war might be concession to the Slavs, perhaps the ‘trialism’ which would undo Austro-Hungarian ‘dualism’.1998, John Keegan, The First World War, Vintage, published 2000, page 53. From the entry trialism
• The voiskos demanded more and more concessions – both economic and political – as the price of their military service.1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 66. From the entry voisko
• Hotdoggeries and other concession stands are common at motocross tracks.1973 July, Toledo Hanson, “How to Be a Happy Spectator”, in Pete Szilagyi, editor, Motocross Action Magazine, Encino, Calif.: Hi-Torque…. From the entry hotdoggery
• The effect of the closing inside the booths was to turn the line of concessions into a twilit tunnel.1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 10, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 241. From the entry twilit
• A century after it was founded in Shanghai’s French concession, the institution has never been so popular at home or resented abroad.[2021 June 29, Pete Sweeney, “China’s Communist Party runs low on creativity”, in Peter Thal Larsen, Katrina Hamlin, editors, Reuters…. From the entry Shanghai French Concession
• Labor could scarcely barter with a party that adopted an antisocialist stance or trade support in return for concessions with a party terming itself antisocialist.2010, Bruce Hodgins, Don Wright, W.H. Heick, Federalism in Canada and Australia: The Early Years. From the entry antisocialist
• My main concession to my Yorubaness was the danshiki, itself also a loose top garment, though not as voluminous as the agbada.2008, Chike Momah, chapter XIII, in A Snake Under a Thatch, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry agbada
• Blondel needn’t have been so concerned about Tisza’s negotiations as Hungarians hostile to Romanian demands were themselves sabotaging any efforts to offer concessions.2003, The South Slav Journal, volume 24, Dositey Obradovich Circle, page 22. From the entry Romano-
• The country has developed a strong consensus for peace, but the devil is in the details over what concessions should be made.1998 December 16, Alain L. Sanders, “Israel: Let the People Speak”, in Time, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2009. From the entry the devil is in the details
• Both after all are blondes, and hair-colour is the single concession to individuality made in this angelic televisual idyll of physical perfection.1982, Peter Conrad, Television, the medium and its manners, page 154. From the entry angeldom
• There the Soviets granted a concession.1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 294. From the entry mirv
• Lobbying and votes on the one hand, and concessions on the other might be written into a chronique scandaleuse of Canadian history.1964, G[eorge] P[arkin] de T[wenebroker] Glazebrook, A History of Transportation in Canada. Volume II, National Economy: 1867–1936 [The…. From the entry chronique scandaleuse
• The Soviet Union thus should make a vital concession by agreeing to withdraw from the Eastern Zone. 2) Simultaneous de-Atlantification of the Western Germany.1954, Review of International Affairs - Volume 5, page 238. From the entry atlantification
• Prime Water currently has concessions in several provinces but the transition from Maynilad and Manila Water to Prime Water would make Villar the “water supply king,” the latest Dutertegarch.2020 April 7, Perry Diaz, “Rise of the Dutertegarchs”, in Philippine Sentinel. From the entry Dutertegarch
• After information about the secret proceedings between Berlin and Budapest leaked, Rome approached Budapest to get details on the concessions granted with the envisaged German–Hungarian commercial contract.2016, Per Tiedtke, chapter 8, in Germany, Italy and the International Economy 1929–1936: Co-operation or Rivalries at Times of Crisis?…. From the entry Budapest
• The Hansards enjoyed extensive trading privileges in England, especially at the Steelyard in London, yet they offered their English counterparts no such commercial concessions in their own markets.2015, Charles D. Stanton, “The German Hanse: Martial Merchants of the Baltic”, in Medieval Maritime Warfare, Barnsley, South Yorkshire…. From the entry Hansard
• The team's only odd uniform concession had been to wear hockey masks which covered their faces but left holes for the eyes and slits for the mouth and nose.2013, Weston Ochse, Age of Blood: A SEAL Team 666 Novel, Saint Martin's Press, page 137. From the entry Jason Voorhees
• If it is nonabsolutist, then there has to be some way to extract concessions about the permissibility of torture; such is a conceptual requirement of nonabsolutist theories.2012, Fritz Allhoff, Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture, page 121. From the entry nonabsolutist
• Near the concession stand on the east side of the park, she saw two familiar figures sitting on a bench in the shade of a large oak.2008, Elizabeth Elwood, “Gilda Died for Love”, in A Black Tie Affair: And Other Mystery Stories, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry semaphore
• Shanghai's concessions, which by the middle of the nineteenth century took up 0.56 square kilometers, extended to over 33 square kilometers at the beginning of the twentieth century.2004, Marie-Claire Bergère, “Shanghai's Urban Development: A Remake?”, in Seng Kuan, Peter G. Rowe, editors, Shanghai: Architecture &…. From the entry Yangshupu
• A publicity plane flew along the Croisette, its pennant fluttering like the trace of a fibrillating heart, unnoticed by the sunbathers stretched in their loungers in the hotel concessions.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 107. From the entry fibrillating
• The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey. From the entry sop
• The Atlantic Bloc should also make a vital concession by withdrawing from the Western Zone and abandoning all plans for the integration of Germany into the E.D.C.1954, Review of International Affairs - Volume 5, page 238. From the entry atlantification
• For its part, Taipei has sold exploration concessions along the Chinese shelf to several foreign multinationals in areas north of the Tiaoyutai that are part of China’s coastal defense system.1980, Kim Woodard, “Rapid Change and Constraints in China's Energy Policy”, in The International Energy Relations of China, Stanford…. From the entry Tiaoyutai

Meaning of concession

1. noun The act of conceding.
2. noun A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
3. noun A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.

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How do you use concession in a sentence?

Concession is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.”

What is a short sentence with concession?

“The French Concession in Shanghai”

What does concession mean?

Concession means the act of conceding.