資料來源 : pyDict
讓步,承認,特許
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Concession \Con*ces"sion\, n. [L. concessio, fr. concedere: cf.
F. concession. See {Concede}.]
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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
concession
n 1: a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary
business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park"
[syn: {grant}]
2: the act of conceding or yielding [syn: {conceding}, {yielding}]
3: a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions
they asked for"