HOW TO PRONOUNCE
concession
/kənˈsɛʃən/
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kun-SESH-un: the double s sounds like sh.
The middle syllable takes the stress. Keep the first and last vowels light, allowing the sh sound to connect directly to the final un.
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“The agreement included a concession on delivery dates.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does concession mean?
noun
- The act of conceding.
- A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
- A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
More meanings (16)
noun
- The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
- A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
- A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concessions stands.
- A preferential tax rate.
- A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
- An admission of the validity of an opponent's point in order to build an argument upon it or to move on to another of greater importance; an instance of this.
- Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
- An admission of defeat following an election.
- A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
- A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
- An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
- A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
- (historical) A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
- (historical) A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
verb
- To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.
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IPA pronunciation
/kənˈsɛʃən/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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This mental concession did not prevent his fixing upon Alice, when she returned to the room, a glance of obvious disapproval.
M. de Bellegarde’s face flushed a little, but he held his head higher, as if to repudiate this concession to vulgar perturbability.
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Subsequently, however, an attempt at rigid construction was made in France with the "Spiess" airship, mainly as a concession to public clamour.
For that they had agreed to marry us, though the marrying part of it was a concession to our prejudices rather than theirs.
Most carefully were all these circumstances weighed, and the foundations of the new Government laid upon principles of reciprocal concession and equitable compromise.