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Definition of concession

Concession
Concession Con*ces"sion, n. [L. concessio, fr. concedere: cf. F. concession. See Concede.] 1. 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 concession the business was adjusted. --Hallam. 2. A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal. This is therefore a concession, that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. --Sharp. When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small concessions. --Swift.

Meaning of concession from wikipedia

- Look up concession in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Concession may refer to: Concession (contract) (sometimes called a concession agreement), a contractual...
- Concession is a small town in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe. It is located approximately 45 km from Harare and is along the road from Mazowe...
- A concession or concession agreement is a grant of rights, land or property by a government, local authority, corporation, individual or other legal entity...
- In Upper and Lower Canada, concession roads were laid out by the colonial government through undeveloped Crown land to provide access to rows of newly...
- A concession stand (American English, Canadian English), snack kiosk or snack bar (British English, Irish English) is a place where patrons can purchase...
- The foreign concessions in Tianjin (formerly romanized as Tientsin) were concession territories ceded by Qing China to a number of European countries...
- The Shanghai French Concession was a foreign concession in Shanghai, China from 1849 until 1943, which progressively expanded in the late 19th and early...
- Concession was a petroleum oil concession that was signed in 1901 between William Knox D'Arcy and Mozzafar al-Din, Shah of Persia. The oil concession...
- Foreign concessions in China were a group of concessions that existed during the late Imperial China and the Republic of China, which were governed and...
- In politics, a concession is the act of a losing candidate publicly yielding to a winning candidate after an election after the overall result of the vote...