concession Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
    grant.
    • he got the beer concession at the ball park
  2. noun the act of conceding or yielding
    conceding; yielding.
  3. noun a point conceded or yielded
    • they won all the concessions they asked for

WordNet

Con*ces"sion noun
Etymology
L. concessio, fr. concedere: cf. F. concession. See Concede.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913