Usually means: Yield or retreat under pressure.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. give ground: Merriam-Webster
  2. give ground: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. give ground: Collins English Dictionary
  4. give ground: Wiktionary
  5. give ground: Dictionary.com
  6. give ground: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. give ground: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. give ground: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. give ground: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. give ground: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (give ground)

verb:  To retreat.
verb:  (figurative) To yield an advantage.

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