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Subject of a loser's postelection speech
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concession
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A concession or concession as an agreement is a grant of rights, land or property by a government, local authority, corporation, individual or other legal entity. Public services such as water supply may be operated as a concession. In the case of a public ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of conceding, especially that of defeat 2 something, such as an argument, that is conceded or admitted to be wrong 3 (context rhetoric English) Admitting a point to strengthen one's overall case. 4 the grant of some land to be used for a specified ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Old French concession (14c.) or directly from Latin concessionem (nominative concessio ) "an allowing, conceding," noun of action from past participle stem of concedere (see concede ). Meaning "right or privilege granted by government" is ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park" [syn: grant ] the act of conceding or yielding [syn: conceding , yielding ] a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concession \Con*ces"sion\, n. [L. concessio, fr. concedere: cf. F. concession. See Concede .] The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. By mutual ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES concession stand COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE big ▪ This was a big concession by Lord Owen, which went practically unnoticed at first. ▪ Was Britain wrong in not making swifter and bigger concessions ? ▪ A deal ...
Usage examples of concession.
He gave out a little groan, his one concession to the pain that racked him, but he kept going, step by step, meter by meter.
When the allies of Rome claimed an equal share of honors and privileges, the senate indeed preferred the chance of arms to an ignominious concession.
No doubt the Communard press is making great ado about that concession, to whip up public sentiment once more against the Republican government.
But the rashness of these concessions has encouraged a milder sentiment of those of the Docetes, who taught, not that Christ was a phantom, but that he was clothed with an impassible and incorruptible body.
On the other hand, Eck made some concessions, mostly verbal, about the doctrine of justification and other points.
The sisters did not spare an inch where Estral would have allowed a concession.
The Gora give them a few concessions and grab off the secretion - the most precious thing they have.
Concession was always a demand, never an offer, at this stage: another rule to prevent irresponsible players from tying up the grids when they had no intention of playing a Game.
Even as he wrote mobs spurred on by radical agitators overran and looted the British Concessions at Hankow and at Kiukang farther down the river.
In their first yielding of territory since the Opium Wars, the British negotiated with Eugene Chen the relinquishment of the Hankow and Kiukang Concessions while diehards thundered red-faced in their clubs and the Empire quivered.
When she and Midalis had announced their plans for this diversion to Pireth Dancard, the centaur, in particular, had howled in outrage, and had kept on howling until he got concessions from the pair that they would use all precautions here.
If you grant us this concession we in turn will put you in possession of a magnificent idea.
To forge some kind of order in the Lowers by granting concessions to men like Fat Wong.
The small force of garrison troops Lagoas maintained in Mizpah paraded across it in uniform tunics and kilts - with heavy wool leggings beneath the kilts as a concession to the climate.
The hunter had flown them out from there in his twin-engine Beechcraft Baron to this vast, remote hunting concession near the Mozambican border that he chartered from the Zimbabwean government.