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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concessionary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fare
▪ Local people and regular travellers would also retain their concessionary fares on the crossing.
▪ He said that last year the local authority spent £1.35m. on concessionary fares and would spend the same this year.
▪ Pass revival: Langbaurgh Council is set to reintroduce a concessionary fares scheme for pensioners and the disabled from July 1.
▪ Proper concessionary fare schemes will be developed in every area.
▪ Assisting people in rural areas by making concessionary fares on local public transport widely available.
▪ It's because Middlesbrough Council can not afford to increase the subsidy for concessionary fares from £1.35m.
▪ The 1883 Cheap Trains Act made concessionary fares for workers general and compulsory.
▪ The concessionary fares scheme in London will continue.
rate
▪ Admission was expected to be about £4.00 full rate, and there would as usual be concessionary rates.
▪ Remember to reduce the seat price if you are applying for seats at a concessionary rate.
▪ Under house purchase schemes employees can buy property at concessionary rates of interest, often around 5 percent.
travel
▪ Higher paid employees of the railways enjoy free or concessionary travel on the railways.
▪ Airline employees also enjoy concessionary travel.
▪ The evidence is that when free concessionary travel was withdrawn fewer trips were made and there were fewer elderly bus passenger casualties.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a concessionary agreement
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Admission was expected to be about £4.00 full rate, and there would as usual be concessionary rates.
▪ Airline employees also enjoy concessionary travel.
▪ It is available to blind people at a concessionary cost of £17.55.
▪ Local people and regular travellers would also retain their concessionary fares on the crossing.
▪ Pass revival: Langbaurgh Council is set to reintroduce a concessionary fares scheme for pensioners and the disabled from July 1.
▪ Proper concessionary fare schemes will be developed in every area.
▪ Successful applicants will be able to build up entitlement to normal benefits such as concessionary mortgages.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concessionary

Concessionary \Con*ces"sion*a*ry\, a. Of or pertaining to a concession. -- n.; pl. -ries. A concessionaire.

Wiktionary
concessionary

a. 1 relating to concessions or franchises 2 making concessions or compromises n. one who owns a concession or a franchise

Usage examples of "concessionary".

The concessionaries were already shutting up shop, extinguishing fires and bagging trash, hurrying to move to another parking lot on the other side of the borough, where they would reopen for the post-blessing feast.

First the Missionaries, then the Concessionaries with the soldiers at their backs.

Shadwell had a Cause, which he followed with the full resources of his soul and his Pen­sioner's Concessionary Travel Pass.

The results of the trawl, even with his pensioners' concessionary travel pass taken into consideration, were barely enough to get him out of the house, let alone to Tadfield.

If they were to decide not to be content with dieir concessionary inch, and set out to claim a mile… well, some might say dial it’s a short enough step from being a hard-line Decivilizer to becoming an Eliminator.

If they were to decide not to be content with their concessionary inch, and set out to claim a mile… well, some might say that it’s a short enough step from being a hard-line Decivilizer to becoming an Eliminator.

Gwyn stood there with his concessionary shrugs and frowns, beset by reasons for not saying what he wanted to say.

The proposal seemed clearly to be a conciliatory one, a concessionary, disarming one, one offered to ease a tense moment.