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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concessionaire
noun
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▪ He notes that his lawyers regularly shoo away concessionaires who use images of the Empire State Building without permission.
▪ Note: Lake Merced North will receive trophy-size trout from the park concessionaire.
▪ The concessionaire will also be expected to supply the necessary fleet of DMUs and the maintenance and stabling depot.
▪ The capitalist tenant, the concessionaire and so forth will similarly have a firm base in the growing economically petty-bourgeois element.
▪ The government has set June 11 as the deadline for submitting bids, and hopes to select a concessionaire by July 3.
▪ This sees control of most assets handed over to one, two or three concessionaires, possibly for 25 years.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concessionaire

Concessionaire \Con*ces`sion*aire"\, ||Concessionnaire \Con`ces`sion`naire"\, n. [F. concessionnaire.] The beneficiary of a concession or grant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
concessionaire

1862, from French concessionaire "person to whom a concession has been granted," from concession, from Latin concessionem (see concession).

Wiktionary
concessionaire

n. one who holds a concession or a right granted (for example, by the government) to conduct a certain business

WordNet
concessionaire

n. someone who holds or operates a concession [syn: concessioner]

Usage examples of "concessionaire".

Most were owned by the concessionaires and their families, but a score or two were the property of the Sombra Brothers and were rented out to those carnies, like me, who did not hold title to their own accommodations.

Or if one of the concessionaires is looking for a helper of any kind .

Authorized park concessionaires had jacked food prices so high the little stand did a booming business, especially among the rangers.

He sauntered down the sidewalk, knowing he had the best part of an hour before he had to worry about crowd control or making certain the concessionaires were in their proper.

Of course the owner of the caper had leased it to Paravox for the day, the same as all the other concessionaires had done.

Fair concessionaire Frank Menches is also said to be the founder of hamburgers, first serving them at the Akron, Ohio, County Fair in 1892.

Beckwurt, a jam-auction concessionaire who traveled with a big outfit that spent the season mostly in the Midwest.

Herr Kamin, the concessionaire of the forestry house and inn, took a seat between August Pokriefke and my mother.

Now it seems there is a little man living inside me who acts as minister or propagandist or concessionaire for handjobs.

I don't suppose you're a concessionaire with your own shop, looking to pay a privilege for a spot on the midway.

I'll become the most prosperous concessionaire in this outfit, and someday I'll own this carnival.

Because carnies are, to begin with, outcasts or misfits who can find no place in straight society, many shows (unlike the Sombra Brothers) do not ask questions when hiring new workers or contracting with new concessionaires, and among the honest misfits there are a few -very few-hard cases, criminal types.

Enos Enoch Himself had flung the Business Administration concessionaires bodily from Founder's Hall, and had declared to His proté.

While he signaled a roving concessionaire, Liv leaned against the railing in front of her and studied the field.