concessions
- 1Plural of concession.
The treaty required painful concessions from every nation involved.
Negotiators won important concessions on trade and labor rules.
Note
A plural that turns a mostly uncountable noun into things you can count. The act of conceding rarely takes an -s, but individual compromises do: concessions on trade, concessions from each side. The plural also covers concrete grants: historical enclaves yielded to a foreign power, Canadian settlers' lots and the concession roads between them, and, in the US, the premises a business is granted to operate.
- 2The counter or stand at a theater, stadium, or fair that sells snacks, drinks, and other refreshments.
During halftime, fans lined up at the concessions for nachos and cold drinks.
The concessions stay open until the final showing of the night ends.
Similarrefreshments, kiosks
Note
Here the plural names a place rather than a set of grants. It is short for concessions stand, and the -s survives even inside that compound. On its own it usually takes the: fans line up at the concessions. It grows out of the American use of concession for premises granted to a business, which sits among the meanings of the ordinary plural.
concessions is a form of concession
concession, noun: A partial yielding to another's demands or requests, made as a compromise. Full entry
- Forms
- concessionconcessions plural
- Spelling
- concession → concessions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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