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concession

noun
/kənˈsɛʃən/

Etymology

From late Middle English concession, from Middle French concession, from Latin concessiō (“a grant, permission, conceding”), from concēdō. Doublet of concessio.

  1. derived from concessiō — “a grant, permission, conceding”
  2. derived from concession
  3. derived from concession

Definitions

  1. The act of conceding.

    • Any parsone, prest or clerk, havyng any benefice... by wey of presentation, donation, concession, collation or institution.
    • In this country... civil war has been forestalled by opportune concession.

  2. An act of conceding

    • But these concessions failed, as I believe concessions to evil always do fail.

  3. A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A franchise

      A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).

    2. An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.

    3. A person eligible for a concession price (see above).

    4. To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.

      • [A] consultant was contracted for one year to prepare the legal and administrative framework for concessioning selected roads to the private sector and is expected to complete the framework in July 2005.

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Derived

anticoncession, concessionaire, concessional, concessionary, concession-contraexpectation, concession-counter-expectation, concessioner, concessionism, concessionist, concession road, concession speech, concession stand, nonconcession, unconcession

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at concession. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at concession. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at concession

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA