concession

Speech parts

1. concession - Noun

2. concession - Verb

Meaning

The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.

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.

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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile. John Maynard Keynes

In a whisper he began begging for-and, as the sun set, received-the concession people always beg for: a little more time. Zadie Smith

Every concession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept. Václav Havel

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. Anthony Eden

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession. Barrett Brown

Concession is another control bind. History shows that once a government starts to make concessions it is on a one-way street. William S. Burroughs

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