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The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
John Bright

Meaning of "concession" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONCESSION

From Latin concēssiō an allowing, from concēdere to concede.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CONCESSION

concession  [kənˈsɛʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONCESSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Concession is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONCESSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Concession

Concession may refer to: ▪ Concession : a contractual right to carry on a certain kind of business or activity in an area, such as to explore or develop its natural resources or to operate a "concession stand" within a venue ▪ Concession: an area within one country that is administered by another, usually conceded by a weaker country to a stronger one ▪ Concession: failure to challenge or cessation of challenging, as in "conceding an election" or "conceding a game". ▪ Concessional loan, a loan with below-market terms ▪ Concession road: a grid-based road system in Ontario and Quebec...

Definition of concession in the English dictionary

The first definition of concession in the dictionary is the act of yielding or conceding, as to a demand or argument. Other definition of concession is something conceded. Concession is also a reduction in the usual price of a ticket granted to a special group of customers.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONCESSION


accession
əkˈsɛʃən
cession
ˈsɛʃən
circuminsession
ˌsɜːkəmɪnˈsɛʃən
decession
dɪˈsɛʃən
depression
dɪˈprɛʃən
expression
ɪkˈsprɛʃən
impression
ɪmˈprɛʃən
intercession
ˌɪntəˈsɛʃən
obsession
əbˈsɛʃən
postrecession
ˌpəʊstrɪˈsɛʃən
precession
prɪˈsɛʃən
procession
prəˈsɛʃən
reaccession
ˌriːəkˈsɛʃən
recession
rɪˈsɛʃən
retrocession
ˌrɛtrəʊˈsɛʃən
secession
sɪˈsɛʃən
self-obsession
ˌsɛlfəbˈsɛʃən
session
ˈsɛʃən
succession
səkˈsɛʃən
supersession
ˌsuːpəˈsɛʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONCESSION

concertino
concertise
concertize
concertmaster
concertmeister
concertmistress
concerto
concerto grosso
concessible
concession road
concession stand
concessionaire
concessional
concessionaries
concessionary
concessioner
concessionist
concessionnaire
concessive
concessively

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONCESSION

admission
aggression
commission
compassion
confession
conversion
discussion
emission
European Commission
mission
passion
percussion
permission
possession
pression
profession
progression
regression
submission
suppression
transmission

Synonyms and antonyms of concession in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONCESSION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «concession» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of concession

Translation of «concession» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONCESSION

Find out the translation of concession to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of concession from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «concession» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

让步
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

concesión
570 millions of speakers

English

concession
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रियायत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اِمْتِيَاز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уступка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

concessão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনুমোদন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

concession
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

konsesi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Konzession
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

譲歩
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

특허
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Konsesi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự nhượng bộ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சலுகை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सवलत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

imtiyaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

concessione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ustępstwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поступка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

concesie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραχώρηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toegewing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rabatt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

konsesjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of concession

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONCESSION»

The term «concession» is very widely used and occupies the 20.911 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of concession
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONCESSION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «concession» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «concession» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about concession

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7 QUOTES WITH «CONCESSION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word concession.
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Ali Babacan
It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.
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John Bright
The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
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Anthony Eden
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
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Howard Hughes
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
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Tim Robbins
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
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Jalal Talabani
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
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Gao Xingjian
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONCESSION»

Discover the use of concession in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to concession and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast: Cognitive and ...
This is because there is an immense body of descriptive and theoretical publications and especially because of the existence of large computer corpora for Present-Day English, as well as for older periods of the language and for regional ...
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Bernd Kortmann, 2000
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The Manila Water Concession: A Key Government Official's ...
In January 1997 the Government of the Philippines awarded two long-term concession contracts to private consortia, to operate the water and wastewater services in Greater Manila, an area with a population of 11 million.
Mark Dumol, 2000
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Forest Concession Policies and Revenue Systems: Country ...
Forest concessions have been an important element of forestry and forest management in many countries, including developing countries.
John Andrew Gray, 2002
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The First Kuwait Oil Concession Agreement: A Record of the ...
First Published in 1975. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Archibald H. T. Chisholm, 1975
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The Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds
ORDaSANDPBOCaURES Types of Orders There are three types of orders — net, concession, and takedown. The highest-priced order is sold to investors at the net, that is, at the price or yield actually shown in the reoffering scale.
‎2001
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Food Booth: The Complete Guide to Starting and Operating a ...
Food Booth, The Complete Guide to Starting and Operating a Food Concession Business provides much needed step-by-step guidance making the American dream of owning ones own business assessable to even the most unlikely entrepreneur.
‎2006
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Concession in Spoken English: On the Realisation of a ...
Concession. in. action: Discourse. functions. of. Concessive. constructions. Investigating a phenomenon of talk in its actual habitat of interaction relates this study to the interactional approach to discourse (cf. Couper- Kuhlen 1998a ...
Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, 2003
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Road Infrastructure Concession Practice in Europe
Furthermore, governments can borrow at more favourable terms than the private sector since there is less risk. A private company must possess substantial equity to undertake a road infrastructure concession project. However, equity funding ...
Franck Bousquet, Alain Fayard
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Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to ...
Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from the forest balance their needs with the desire of the state to earn foreign revenue from ecotourism and forest-based enterprises.
Genese Marie Sodikoff, 2012
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National Park Service : concession reform issues: statement ...
In contrast, for concession agreements in the nonland management agencies, about 96 percent of 101 concession agreements were established through competition during this time period. Another factor affecting the return to the government ...
Victor S. Rezendes, United States. General Accounting Office, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONCESSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term concession is used in the context of the following news items.
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School concession stand vandalized
MECOSTA CO. -- Authorities in Big Rapids are looking for whoever broke in and vandalized the concession stand at Crossroads Charter ... «UpNorthLive.com, Jul 15»
2
Venditto: Oyster Bay may have to pay if it cuts concession contract
Oyster Bay could be responsible for an undisclosed amount of money if it ended its concessions agreement at the town golf course, Town ... «Newsday, Jul 15»
3
Maxim Signs Extension to Its Reconnaissance Concession on the …
The original Reconnaissance Concession Authorization was signed on ... A Reconnaissance Concession Authorization is required in order to ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
4
Chairman Royce: Iran regime's nuclear negotiators emboldened by …
Chairman Royce: Iran regime's nuclear negotiators emboldened by concession. Details: Tuesday, 07 July 2015 16:35. Print · Email. Share ... «NCR-Iran.org, Jul 15»
5
Riverdogs running concession specials
The holiday weekend is over, but Joseph P. Riley Park is continuing to serve patriotic-themed concession specials through the RiverDogs' ... «Charleston Post Courier, Jul 15»
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Clarksville leaders host fundraiser to fix little league concession stand
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Clarksville city leaders are hosting a fundraiser to help repair a concession stand at a baseball field after it ... «WKRN.com, Jul 15»
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Lao Whistleblower Detained For Publishing Concession Document …
Authorities in Laos have detained a woman who posted information on social media about a controversial land concession granted by the local ... «Radio Free Asia, Jul 15»
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Fun center concession stand shut down with rodents
But last week a state inspector was forced to shut down the concession stand inside Terrace Sports documenting 12 violations including rodent ... «WTSP 10 News, Jul 15»
9
Fans complain of long lines at Nissan Stadium concession stands
Fans took to social media to complain of long lines at the concession stands. Guests said the stadium seemed “totally unprepared for the huge ... «WSMV Nashville, Jul 15»
10
Pakistan's traitors deserve no concession: Kamran Michael
LONDON: (Dunya News) – Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Kamran Michael has on Monday said that the traitors of Pakistan deserve no concession. «DunyaNews Pakistan, Jul 15»

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