Concession

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  • noun. The act of conceding.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something, such as a point previously claimed in argument, that is later conceded.
  • noun. An acknowledgment or admission.
  • noun. A grant of a tract of land made by a government or other controlling authority in return for stipulated services or a promise that the land will be used for a specific purpose.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The privilege of maintaining a subsidiary business within certain premises.
  • noun. The space allotted for such a business.
  • noun. The business itself.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of conceding, granting, or yielding: usually implying a demand, claim, or request from the party to whom the grant is made.
  • noun. Specifically—2. In argumentation, the yielding, granting, or allowing to the opposite party of some point or fact that may bear dispute, with a view to gain some ulterior advantage, or to show that, even when the point conceded is granted, the argument can be maintained.
  • noun. The thing or point yielded; a grant.
  • noun. [In parts of the United States acquired from Spain and Mexico it is used in a much broader sense, and includes entries of land and warrants of survey or location; any designation of public land by the government as assigned to private ownership or occupation.]
  • noun. In China, Korea, and other countries where extraterritoriality prevails, a tract of land at or near a sea- or river-port, set apart for the use of the citizens and subjects of the treaty-nations when that port, is opened by treaty to foreign residence and trade: as, the French and British concessions at Shanghai; the British concession at Han-kau; the Foreign Concession at Tientsin, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
  • noun. A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of conceding, especially that of defeat
  • noun. something, such as an argument, that is conceded or admitted to be wrong
  • noun. Admitting a point to strengthen one's overall case.
  • noun. the grant of some land to be used for a specified purpose
  • noun. a contract to operate a small business as a subsidiary of a larger company, or within the premises of some institution; the business itself and the space from which it operates
  • noun. In Ontario, a small road between tracts of farmland.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of conceding or yielding
  • noun. a point conceded or yielded
  • noun. a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
  • Word Usage
    "Napoleon felt his _weakness_, and tried to win back popular _favor_ by concession after _concession_, until, at his fall, he had nearly restored parliamentary _government_."
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