Usually means: Granting something as a compromise.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. concession: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. concession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. concession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. concession: Collins English Dictionary
  5. concession: Vocabulary.com
  6. Concession, concession: Wordnik
  7. concession: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. concession: Wiktionary
  9. concession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. concession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. concession: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. concession: Dictionary.com
  13. concession: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. concession: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Concession (contract), Concession (politics), Concession (territory), Concession: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Concession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. concession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. concession: Rhymezone
  19. Concession: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. concession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. concession: Free Dictionary
  22. concession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. concession: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Concession: bizterms.net
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Concession: Investopedia
  8. Concession: Securities Terminology
  9. concession: Legal dictionary
  10. concession: Financial dictionary
  11. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. concession: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Concession: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See concessional as well.)

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