concession

Other forms of concession

plural

concessions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about concession

What does concession mean?

concession means "a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in concession?

concession has 3 syllables: con-ces-sion. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /kənˈsɛʃən/.

What is another word for concession?

Close synonyms include grant, conceding, yielding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is concession a common word?

concession is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with concession?

9 words rhyme with concession. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.