concession vs mill

concession

noun
  • A preferential tax rate. 

  • 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 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. 

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

mill

noun
  • One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax. 

  • A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic. 

  • An engine. 

  • An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent. 

  • A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games. 

  • A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc. 

  • A prison treadmill. 

  • A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck. 

  • A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process. 

  • An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. 

  • A milling cutter. 

  • A passage underground through which ore is shot. 

  • Discarding a card from one's deck. 

  • A boxing match, fistfight. 

  • An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised 

  • A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. 

  • A building housing such a plant. 

  • A typewriter used to transcribe messages received. 

  • A machine for grinding and polishing. 

  • The building housing such a grinding apparatus. 

  • The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw. 

  • A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper. 

  • An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc. 

verb
  • To take part in a fistfight; to box. 

  • To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile. 

  • To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. 

  • To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning. 

  • To move about in an aimless fashion. 

  • To beat; to pound. 

  • To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. 

  • To swim suddenly in a new direction. 

  • To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. 

  • To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand. 

  • To swim underwater. 

  • To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). 

  • To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. 

  • To undergo hulling. 

  • To roll (steel, etc.) into bars. 

  • To cause to mill, or circle around. 

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