Definitions for concession

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concession con·ces·sion

Spelling: [kuh n-sesh-uh n]

IPA: /kənˈsɛʃ ən/

Concession is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in concession (cceinnooss).

Definitions for concession

noun

1. the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument:
2. the thing or point yielded:
3. something conceded by a government or a controlling authority, as a grant of land, a privilege, or a franchise.
4. a space or privilege within certain premises for a subsidiary business or service:
5. Canadian. any of the usually sixteen divisions of a township, each division being 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km) in area and containing thirty-two 200-acre lots.

Origin of concession

1605-15; 1910-15 for def 4; Latin concēssiōn- (stem of concēssiō), equivalent to concēss(us) (past participle of concēdere to concede) + -iōn-

Examples for concession

But how can you expect, when there must be a concession on one side, that it should be on theirs?

But this was a concession to morality, it formed no part of his main scheme.

The constitution was rewritten retrospectively in an attempt to put the concession beyond legal challenge.

Is this a concession in the land of the anything goes world of Juggalos?

At his concession speech, he told his staff to get ready to go work the next day.

But there remains an underlying air of stress, from the media tent to the concession stands.

But catching glimpses of the concession speeches from the above quintumverate would make the night a lot less painful.

And what concession she had gained from her dear child to merit this tenderness?

Hence the concession, and hence the appearance of Flora, piloted in by the man, man.

This last was a concession to Jan, who hated the extinguisher.