Other forms: concessions
A concession is admitting a point your opponent has made. Make a concession, a major concession, concede the point.
In argument it strengthens you rather than weakening you: granting what is true makes the rest of your case more believable, and refusing every point makes you sound unreliable. In business a concession is the right to run a stall or a service in somebody else's place.
1nounconcessionAdmitting a point your opponent has made.
“In a small concession, she admitted that his figures were correct but still rejected his plan.”
2nounrightThe right to run a service on somebody else's premises.
“The family runs the ice-cream concession at the football stadium.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
concession is an admission, or a right.
Latin concessio comes from concedere, to yield or give way — con- plus cedere, to go.
Latin
concessiō — a grant, permission, conceding
Middle French
concession
Middle English
concession
English, today
concession
From late Middle English concession, from Middle French concession, from Latin concessiō (“a grant, permission, conceding”), from concēdō. a doublet of concessio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA