Concession

n.	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.

Noun	1.	concession - a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park" Synonyms: grant
	2.	concession - the act of conceding or yielding Synonyms: conceding, yielding
	3.	concession - a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they asked for"

CONCESSION. A grant. This word is frequently used in this sense when applied to grants made by the French and Spanish governments in Louisiana.

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