different between assignment vs concession

English

Etymology

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement.

Pronunciation

Noun

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

   This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.

2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

   We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

3. An assigned task.

   The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.

4. A position to which someone is assigned.

   Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.

5. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.

   Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

6. (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.

   The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

7. (law) A document that effects this transfer.

   Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

8. (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

Hyponyms

• (programming): augmented assignment

Translations

References

• assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From late Middle English concession, from Middle French concession, from Latin concessi? (“a grant, permission, conceding”), from conc?d?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s???n/
• Hyphenation: con?ces?sion

Noun

concession (usually uncountable, plural concessions)

1. The act of conceding.
   • c. 1472, October, Rolls of Parliament, Edward IV, 2nd Roll, §8:

     Any parsone, prest or clerk, havyng any benefice... by wey of presentation, donation, concession, collation or institution.

   • 1876, James Bowling Mozley, Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford, v, 130:

     In this country... civil war has been forestalled by opportune concession.

2. An act of conceding, particularly:
   1. A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
      • 1865, John Bright, Speeches of John Bright, M.P., on the American Question, p. 174:

        But these concessions failed, as I believe concessions to evil always do fail.

   2. Land granted by an authority for some specific purpose, particularly:
      1. (historical) A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
      2. (historical) A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.

         The French Concession in Shanghai

      3. (Canada) A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
      4. (chiefly US) The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
   3. A privilege granted by an authority, especially to conduct business on favorable terms within certain conditions and particularly:
      1. A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
      2. (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
      3. (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concession stands.
      4. A preferential tax rate.
      5. (chiefly Britain) A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
   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.
      • 2000 December 13, Al Gore, Concession Speech:

        Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time... tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.

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. (chiefly US, usually in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
6. (chiefly Britain) A person eligible for a concession price (see above).

Synonyms

• (granting a request): tithe (obs.)
• (a smaller business operating under another's aegis): See franchise

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• paromologia
• paromology

Verb

concession (third-person singular simple present concessions, present participle concessioning, simple past and past participle concessioned)

1. To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.
   • 2000, Private Solutions for Infrastructure: Opportunities for Vietnam, World Bank Publications (?ISBN), page 82

     While the process of bringing the private sector into the railroad industry in Vietnam is probably not going to be a single step, several countries have pursued the path of concessioning their rail operations in order to reduce the public fiscal burden associated with rail subsidization and to improve a deficient service.

   • 2007, International Monetary Fund, Kenya: Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual Progress Report - 2003/2004, International Monetary Fund, page 24

     [A] consultant was contracted for one year to prepare the legal and administrative framework for concessioning selected roads to the private sector and is expected to complete the framework in July 2005.

French

Etymology

From Latin concessi?.

Noun

concession f (plural concessions)

1. concession

Related terms

• concéder

Further reading

• “concession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).