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award
English
Etymology
From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??w??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??w??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
award (plural awards)
- (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
- (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
- A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
- (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
Derived terms
- Academy Award
- award ceremony
- book award
- Darwin Award
Translations
Verb
award (third-person singular simple present awards, present participle awarding, simple past and past participle awarded)
- (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge
- the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant
- To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.
- (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
- (transitive) To give (an award).
- Synonym: bestow
- Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.
- (transitive) To give (a person) an award.
- He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Synonyms
- (make or grant an award): crown
Derived terms
- awardable
- awardee
- awarder
- awarding
- awardment
- reaward
Translations
Further reading
- award in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- award in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Warda, adraw
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concession
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)
- 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.
- c. 1472, October, Rolls of Parliament, Edward IV, 2nd Roll, §8:
- An act of conceding, particularly:
- 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.
- 1865, John Bright, Speeches of John Bright, M.P., on the American Question, p. 174:
- Land granted by an authority for some specific purpose, particularly:
- (historical) A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
- (historical) A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
- The French Concession in Shanghai
- (Canada) A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
- (chiefly US) The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
- A privilege granted by an authority, especially to conduct business on favorable terms within certain conditions and particularly:
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concession stands.
- A preferential tax rate.
- (chiefly Britain) A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
- (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.
- (by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
- (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.
- 2000 December 13, Al Gore, Concession Speech:
- A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
- A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
- (chiefly US) A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
- (chiefly US, usually in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
- (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)
- 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.
- 2000, Private Solutions for Infrastructure: Opportunities for Vietnam, World Bank Publications (?ISBN), page 82
French
Etymology
From Latin concessi?.
Noun
concession f (plural concessions)
- concession
Related terms
- concéder
Further reading
- “concession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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