CONCESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concession mean? 

• CONCESSION (noun)
  The noun CONCESSION has 3 senses:

1. a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business

2. the act of conceding or yielding

3. a point conceded or yielded

  Familiarity information: CONCESSION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

concession; grant

Context example:

he got the beer concession at the ball park

Hypernyms ("concession" is a kind of...):

contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concession"):

franchise (an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of conceding or yielding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

conceding; concession; yielding

Hypernyms ("concession" is a kind of...):

acquiescence; assent (agreement with a statement or proposal to do something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concession"):

bye; pass (an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent)

Derivation:

concede (be willing to concede)

concede (acknowledge defeat)

concede (give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A point conceded or yielded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

they won all the concessions they asked for

Hypernyms ("concession" is a kind of...):

agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concession"):

sop (a concession given to mollify or placate)

judicial admission; stipulation ((law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record)

takeaway (a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures)

wage concession (an agreement to raise wages)

 Context examples 

When Miss Mills undertook the office and returned with Dora, exhorting us, from the pulpit of her own bitter youth, to mutual concession, and the avoidance of the Desert of Sahara!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Well, that's my first concession,” added the doctor.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

These were great concessions;—but where Marianne felt that she had injured, no reparation could be too much for her to make.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But if you look up and smile with that countenance, I shall swear concession before I know to what, and that will make a fool of me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Let me ask for this concession—boon, privilege, what you will.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As I am now, I have no influence, I can do nothing: I have offended them, and they will not hear me; but when I have put them in good-humour by this concession, I am not without hopes of persuading them to confine the representation within a much smaller circle than they are now in the high road for.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Concession must be out of the question; but it was time to appear to forget that they had ever quarrelled; and she hoped it might rather assist the restoration of friendship, that when he came into the room she had one of the children with her—the youngest, a nice little girl about eight months old, who was now making her first visit to Hartfield, and very happy to be danced about in her aunt's arms.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“You are very good, sir,” I murmured, anticipating a concession.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Edmund's first object the next morning was to see his father alone, and give him a fair statement of the whole acting scheme, defending his own share in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his motives to deserve, and acknowledging, with perfect ingenuousness, that his concession had been attended with such partial good as to make his judgment in it very doubtful.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was extremely glad that they had come to so good an understanding respecting the Eltons, and that their opinions of both husband and wife were so much alike; and his praise of Harriet, his concession in her favour, was peculiarly gratifying.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)