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concessional

adj

Etymology

From concession + -al.

  1. derived from concessiō — “a grant, permission, conceding”
  2. derived from concession
  3. derived from concession
  4. suffixed as concessional — “concession + al”

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or being a concession

    Of, relating to, or being a concession; concessionary.

  2. A resident of a nursing home who has limited means and whose accommodation is…

    A resident of a nursing home who has limited means and whose accommodation is consequently partly paid for by the government.

    • Every weekend and after work she'd done the rounds of the nursing homes. All are bound by law to take a percentage of 'concessionals'. But the waiting lists! On one he's placed at seventy-five.

  3. Synonym of concessive.

    • […] where the subordinate clause expresses a contingency that applies to the main clause — timing and placing, conditionals, concessionals and all the other kinds of so-called adverbial clauses.

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