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Concession - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Concession : (noun)
1: a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary
business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park"
[syn: grant]
2: the act of conceding or yielding [syn: conceding, yielding]
3: a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions
they asked for"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Concession : \Con*ces"sion\, n. [L. concessio, fr. concedere: cf.
F. concession. See Concede.]
1. The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a
demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from
giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
By mutual concession the business was adjusted.
--Hallam.
2. A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a
grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right
to do something; as, a concession to build a canal.
This is therefore a concession, that he doth . . .
believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain.
--Sharp.
When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances
without further pursuits, then expect to find
popular assemblies content with small concessions.
--Swift.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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CONCESSION. A grant. This word is frequently used in this sense when applied
to grants made by the French and Spanish governments in Louisiana.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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