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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concede
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
concede a goal (=let the other team score a goal)
▪ Arsenal conceded a goal in the final minute of extra time.
concede defeat (=formally accept that you have lost in a game, election etc)
▪ His opponent conceded defeat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
finally
▪ Intel finally conceded that its stampede of product announcements confounded at least as many people as it enlightened.
▪ After falling behind 14-12, the United States staved off four match points before finally conceding the issue.
▪ Both sides finally conceded that surgery was a necessity.
only
▪ At one stage, Simmons had figures of three for nought and he conceded only two scoring shots in 60 deliveries.
▪ But in five Trophy ties they have conceded only one goal.
▪ Despite continued inflation such small increases in remuneration have been conceded only after many years of negotiation.
▪ This is often conceded only grudgingly.
▪ Moreover, Celtic have only conceded two goals during their most consistent spell of the season.
readily
▪ If Mr. Brilliant fails on this point, he readily concedes that that is the end of his appeal.
▪ Levy, 46, readily concedes that the road map is an odd choice as a collector's item.
■ NOUN
demand
▪ Aware of this fact, both king and barons conceded little to clerical demands.
election
▪ By last week Mr Hague had almost conceded the election.
friend
▪ Even his friends concede that Pillsbury can be difficult, being something of a diva, hot-tempered and imperious.
goal
▪ Cwmbran were left to rue the goals they conceded in their 3-2 win at home two weeks ago.
▪ Goals totalling 70 broke the club record, but goals conceded were also up, at 63.
government
▪ Several months later, on 2 December, the government conceded that an average was not a maximum after all.
▪ Such a government, he conceded, was unlikely to survive long.
official
▪ But Commission officials conceded Britain's case that the evidence linking big bikes to accidents was not convincing.
▪ City officials concede, however, that there is no money budgeted yet for the project.
▪ Some White House officials concede the first lady has hurt the administration by efforts to avoid personal embarrassment.
▪ Government officials concede their courts are not perfect.
penalty
▪ In a home match against Huddersfield Town, Newcastle were 3-2 down after conceding a questionable penalty to the visitors.
▪ But as Saracens consistently conceded penalties, Humphreys accepted the points on offer.
▪ The Lions ran into similar refereeing trouble as in Auckland in the second match, conceding 15 penalties during the second half.
▪ Barthez escaped with a yellow card despite clearly kicking Ian Harte to concede a penalty.
▪ Not only did he concede the penalty but he also presented White with the perfect chance to cap a memorable day.
▪ Chiddingfold should have taken the lead after five minutes when Rob Madgwick conceded a penalty for a trip.
point
▪ As much as we hate to concede the point, this is leadership.
▪ Jansher did not concede more than three points in beating Tristan Nancarrow.
▪ And a considerable number of economists, though not always in full knowledge of the implications, have conceded the point.
▪ To some extent, then, Poulantzas concedes his critics' point.
▪ From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points.
▪ Though dismayed, senior managers and the company's labour-relations staff have conceded the point.
points
▪ Jansher did not concede more than three points in beating Tristan Nancarrow.
▪ From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points.
principle
▪ The Sandinistas quickly conceded the principle of bilingual education, and incorporated local languages into the 1980 literacy crusade.
▪ Reluctantly, it conceded the principle of a referendum, to be held in 1992.
■ VERB
force
▪ No one knew if he could finish the match or would be forced to concede.
▪ Has a share of the anti-abortion forces, but concedes Iowa to Dole.
▪ Capitalists were forced to concede the wage rises which for the system as a whole were needed to sustain accumulation.
▪ By kicking deep, and applying follow-up pressure, the intention was to force the opposition to concede the throw-in.
▪ But eventually he was forced to concede that religious and regional fanaticism threatened to overwhelm his reforms.
▪ Those who love their cricket history were forced to concede that this kind of combat could not be surpassed for entertainment.
▪ Declarer has no entry back to dummy and is forced to concede 2 Heart tricks.
refuse
▪ The opposition, alleging fraud, had refused to concede defeat in Guanajuato.
▪ It also reveals the stubbornness of bankers who refused to concede their error even after repeated court proceedings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Sam, you have to apologise to her" -- "I know," Sam conceded grudgingly.
▪ "Well, she is a little bit rude," Ortega conceded.
▪ After three years of civil war, the rebels finally conceded.
▪ Environmentalists concede that it will not be easy to persuade car drivers to use their vehicles less often.
▪ Eventually, the chairman was forced to concede and announce his resignation.
▪ Knowles refused to concede her error.
▪ Matthew kept on arguing his point, unwilling to concede defeat.
▪ We both had a point, but neither of us would concede to the other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But eventually he was forced to concede that religious and regional fanaticism threatened to overwhelm his reforms.
▪ For the first time in living memory a presidential candidate claimed the White House before his rival had conceded the race.
▪ The majority concede that a complaint which is not supported by evidence of injury is unlikely to be pursued by the police.
▪ This time the fear of conceding an early goal will outweigh any desire for an instant lift.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concede

Concede \Con*cede"\, v. i. To yield or make concession.

I wished you to concede to America, at a time when she prayed concession at our feet.
--Burke.

Concede

Concede \Con*cede"\ (k[o^]n*s[=e]d"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conceded; p. pr. & vb. n. Conceding.] [L. concedere, concessum; con- + cedere to go along, give way, yield: cf. F. conc['e]der. See Cede.]

  1. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
    --Boyle.

  2. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

  3. To admit to be true; to acknowledge.

    We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms.
    --Burke.

    Syn: To grant; allow; admit; yield; surrender.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
concede

1630s, from Middle French concéder or directly from Latin concedere "give way, yield, go away, depart, retire," figuratively "agree, consent, give precedence," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + cedere "to go, grant, give way" (see cede). Related: Conceded; conceding.

Wiktionary
concede

vb. 1 To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question. 2 To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of. 3 To admit to be true; to acknowledge. 4 To yield or make concession. 5 (context sports English) To have a goal or point scored against

WordNet
concede

  1. v. admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money" [syn: profess, confess]

  2. be willing to concede; "I grant you this much" [syn: yield, grant]

  3. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another [syn: yield, cede, grant]

  4. acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose"

Usage examples of "concede".

Court was unable to concede that a Georgia statute levying on inhabitants of the State a poll tax payment of which is made a prerequisite for voting but exempting females who do not register for voting, in any way abridged the right of male citizens to vote on account of their sex.

Blade filed the name of Thunor away for future reference, conceding that when in the land of Alb it might be as well to do as the Albians did, always within reason, of course.

Dempsey, conceded a similar allegation to be correct but did not deem it sufficient to render the trial a nullity.

Let it be also conceded that small deviations from the antecedent colouring or form would tend to make some of their ancestors escape destruction, by causing them more or less frequently to be passed over or mistaken by their persecutors.

Christian Socialists of the old Carr faction, who constitute a minority of far less than one per cent of the Socialist Party of the United States, have not only conceded the existence of an atheistic propaganda within the ranks, but have attacked it and utterly failed to suppress it.

The two men waited for an explanation but he gave none, and they stood uncomfortably for a moment, shifting their weight until Axal Foss conceded with a nod.

In August, even the Ayatollah Khomeini, who had resisted all previous pleas to end the war, was forced to concede that Iran could not fight both Iraq and the United States any longer.

Some of the practitioners were willing to concede the possibility that the ciliary muscles did, in addition, change to some extent the shape of the lens.

Some of the practitioners were willing to concede the possibility that the ciliary muscles did, in addition, change to some , extent the shape of the lens.

If the cognitivist cannot say this at the end of the day, there is no point in winning individual battles by conceding it.

And I had to concede that Audefleda was neither a frivolous little dotterel nor an overbearing young virago.

Trace conceded as he occupied himself with maneuvering the pair of dyre pulling the hackney through a congested area of the street.

Still, he conceded, where the safety of an eggling was the stake, it behooved an adult to be seven-times prudent.

National interposition, but to reach it more effectively perhaps by excluding the entire colored population from the basis of Congressional representation, until by the action of the Southern States themselves the elective franchise should be conceded to the colored population.

It was conceded that the measure was valid when enacted, since the mere cessation of hostilities did not end the war or terminate the war powers of Congress.