Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CONCESSION

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Definitions of CONCESSION

1. The act of conceding.
2. An act of conceding, particularly:
3. A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
4. To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.
5. (chiefly, US) A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
6. (chiefly, US, usually, in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
7. (chiefly, UK) A person eligible for a concession price (see above).

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Examples of Using CONCESSION in a Sentence

• In the process of privatization, a concession was granted to liberalize mobile, CATV and packet-switched telecommunications.
• Transportation infrastructure in Romania is the property of the state, and is administered by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Constructions and Tourism, except when operated as a concession, in which case the concessions are made by the Ministry of Administration and Interior.
• February 4 – At Edinburgh, the parliamentary commissioners of the Commonwealth of England proclaim the Tender of Union to be in force in Scotland, annexing the Scottish nation with the concession that Scotland would have 30 representatives in the parliament of the English Commonwealth.
• The 1834 Quadruple Alliance between the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal to enforce the Concession of Evoramonte.
• French Equatorial Africa, especially the region of Ubangi-Shari, had a similar concession system as the Congo Free State and similar atrocities were also committed there.
• Perhaps as a concession, in August 1884 the Worcester County Registry of Deeds was split in two, with the Worcester Northern registry placed in Fitchburg.
• Philippe, founded in 1723 by Philippe François Renault, a French courtier, on his concession about three miles north of Fort de Chartres along the Mississippi River.
• In about 1800, Miguel Ortega was granted a Spanish grazing concession called Rancho Las Virgenes or El Rancho de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Las Virgenes.
• The location of Oak Park was originally part of Rancho Simi, a Spanish land concession in Alta California given in 1795 to Francisco Javier Pico, a soldier of the Santa Barbara company, and his two brothers, Patricio Pico and Miguel Pico by the Spanish government.
• Facilities include picnic tables, shelters, water, dumpstation, modern restrooms, vault toilets, four boat ramps, fish cleaning stations, coin-operated showers and concession.
• A boardwalk, complete with a dance hall, casino, band shell, concession stands and a merry-go-round that played only one song, "Let's Remember Pearl Harbor", provided entertainment, hot dogs and ice cream during the 1940s.
• The park features a beach, rose garden, various recreational facilities, bathhouse, concession stand, several gazebos and picnic shelters, and lawn bowling.
• The park also offers an outdoor basketball court, two tennis courts, a concession stand, restrooms and shelters, along with picnic areas and grills.
• In 1884, a concession for a railway from Luleå to Narvik was granted to The Northern Europe Railway Company.
• The park offered public access to the river, as well as boat rentals, a rope bridge, tree swings, and a concession stand.
• SAS demanded preferential treatment, but Braathens SAFE threatened to flag out and the government gave them a concession that lasted until 1954, on condition they establish a technical base at Stavanger Airport, Sola.
• The epitome referred to, in which alphabetical order was substituted for arrangement in classes and some articles on Christian writers added as a concession to the times, is assigned from internal indications to the years 829-837.
• Amenities include three ball diamonds, two soccer/football fields, a concession stand and a half-mile pedestrian trail that circles the perimeter of the park.
• Ten years later, the company, this time trading under its current trade name, JR/Duty Free, again reentered the Australian market, opening city centre duty-free stores in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, and later Brisbane, and winning a ten-year concession to operate at Darwin Airport from February 2007.
• Sira-Kvina power company applied in 2007 for concession to expand the power station with two new units (reversible turbines), each containing , and the concession is pending.

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