concession
noun
/kənˈsɛʃən/
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- (by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
- (rhetoric) 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.
- (Canadian) A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
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