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▸ 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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grant,
yielding,
conceding,
concedence,
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concessio,
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giveness,
allowance,
yieldance,
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