Usually means: Acknowledging contrast while maintaining stance.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. concessive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. concessive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. concessive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. concessive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. concessive: Vocabulary.com
  6. concessive: Wordnik
  7. concessive: Wiktionary
  8. concessive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. concessive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. concessive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Concessive, concessive: Dictionary.com
  12. Concessive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. concessive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. concessive: Rhymezone
  15. Concessive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. concessive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. concessive: Free Dictionary
  18. concessive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. concessive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. concessive: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (concessive)

adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or being a concession; conceding.
adjective:  (grammar, of a conjunction) Joining clauses while conceding some notion.
noun:  (grammar) A phrase or clause that acts as a concession, such as "even if" or "although".

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