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What does concession mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word concession? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The act of conceding.
  2. An act of conceding, particularly:
    1. A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
    2. Land granted by an authority for some specific purpose, particularly:
    3. A privilege granted by an authority, especially to conduct business on favorable terms within certain conditions and particularly:
    4. (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.
    5. (by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
    6. (originally US) An admission of defeat following an election.
  3. A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
  4. (chiefly US) A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
  5. (plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concession stand.
  6. (chiefly Britain) A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
Verb
  1. To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.
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