concession

IPA: kʌnsˈɛʃʌn

noun

  • The act of conceding.
  • An act of conceding
  • A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
  • Land granted by an authority for some specific purpose
  • (historical) A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
  • (historical) A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
  • (Canada) A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
  • (chiefly US) The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
  • A privilege granted by an authority, especially to conduct business on favorable terms within certain conditions and particularly:
  • A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
  • (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
  • (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concession stands.
  • A preferential tax rate.
  • (chiefly UK) A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
  • (rhetoric) 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.
  • (by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
  • (originally US) An admission of defeat following an election.
  • A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
  • (chiefly US) A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
  • (chiefly US, usually in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
  • (chiefly UK) A person eligible for a concession price (see above).

verb

  • To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.
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Examples of "concession" in Sentences

  • The sheriff said the trailer, which he described as a concession trailer, was stolen.
  • Right now, that means more of the long-term concession projects he expects to become increasingly popular.
  • Far be it from our English women to permit such habits; and yet, as things are, a little concession is prudent.
  • Instead of pushing for the nuclear option of redundancy people have thought about what we call concession bargaining where there is a trade off for job security.
  • Hague also attacked the alternative vote system, a referendum on which was a key concession from the Tories to the Lib Dems when they formed their coalition in May.
  • The best negotiation is one where your main concession is to do something you should do anyway, and controlling cybercrime at home is definitely something we should do.
  • They tested 23 readily available brands, and they grilled them on a-- what they call a concession-style rolling grill thing and came out with their list of top hot dogs.
  • Napoleon felt his _weakness_, and tried to win back popular _favor_ by concession after _concession_, until, at his fall, he had nearly restored parliamentary _government_.
  • An example that Mr. Folsom provided: the ferry magnate Robert Fulton, who operated successfully on the Hudson thanks to a 30-year exclusive concession from the New York state legislature.

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