charter vs concession

charter

verb
  • To grant or establish a charter. 

  • To lease or hire something by charter. 

  • (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest. 

adj
  • Leased or hired. 

noun
  • A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. 

  • A deed (legal contract). 

  • The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle. 

  • A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel. 

  • a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity 

  • A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc. 

  • A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges. 

concession

verb
  • To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement. 

noun
  • A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above). 

  • A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above). 

  • The act of conceding. 

  • A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concession stands. 

  • A preferential tax rate. 

  • A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly. 

  • An admission of defeat following an election. 

  • A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power. 

  • A person eligible for a concession price (see above). 

  • A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests. 

  • A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada. 

  • A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company. 

  • The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below) 

  • An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand. 

  • 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. 

  • A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration. 

  • A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor. 

  • Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this. 

How often have the words charter and concession occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )