concession vs reason

concession

noun
  • 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 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. 

  • 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. 

reason

noun
  • A motive for an action or a determination. 

  • That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause. 

  • An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation. 

  • A premise placed after its conclusion. 

  • Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition. 

verb
  • To support with reasons, as a request. 

  • To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss. 

  • To persuade by reasoning or argument. 

  • To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument. 

  • To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational 

  • To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons. 

  • To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue. 

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