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noun (concessionaries)
- one who owns a concession or a franchise
- 1890, Benjamin Harrison, State of the Union Address
- :That Government seized the Delagoa Bay Railway, which was constructed under a concession granted to an American citizen, and at the same time annulled the charter. The , who had embarked his fortune in the enterprise, having exhausted other means of redress, was compelled to invoke the protection of his Government.
adjective
- relating to concessions or franchises
- making concessions or compromises
- 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby (The New Generation)
- :I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are Concessionary, not Conservative principles.
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