Synonyms:
concession, grant
Meaning: a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park"
Synonyms:
concession, conceding, yielding
Meaning: the act of conceding or yielding
Usage examples
"A mighty concession indeed!
"I will, till she encroaches on this concession, and dares to hope for a greater.
The little white jacket was in reality a concession to Mrs. Gould's humanizing influence.
Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to think him capable of making a concession.
Charles feared that Mr. Gould, senior, was wasting his strength and making himself ill by his efforts to get rid of the Concession.
The English government, in its desire for peace, abandoned all the duties with the exception of that on tea; but even this concession was not sufficient to satisfy the colonists.
He was a man of calm judgment, who never dreamed of pressing his claims; and when, suddenly, the perpetual concession of the San Tome mine was offered to him in full settlement, his alarm became extreme.
The Grassdale people liked us, and me and Andy declared a cessation of hostilities, never so much as floating the fly leaf of a rubber concession prospectus or flashing a Brazilian diamond while we was there.
Concessions, therefore, which would once have extinguished nonconformity would not now satisfy even one half of the nonconformists; and it was the obvious interest of every nonconformist whom no concession would satisfy that none of his brethren should be satisfied.
He implored his son never to return to Costaguana, never to claim any part of his inheritance there, because it was tainted by the infamous Concession; never to touch it, never to approach it, to forget that America existed, and pursue a mercantile career in Europe.