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presentation
English
Alternative forms
- præsentation (archaic)
Etymology
From Old French presentation (French présentation), from Latin praesent?ti?nem, accusative singular of praesent?ti? (“representation, exhibition”).Morphologically present +? -ation
Pronunciation
- (US, UK, Canada) IPA(key): /?p??z?n?te???n/, /?p?iz?n?te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
presentation (countable and uncountable, plural presentations)
- The act of presenting, or something presented
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- A dramatic performance
- An award given to someone on a special occasion
- Money given as a wedding gift.
- A lecture or speech given in front of an audience
- (medicine) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician, e.g., "Thirty-four-year-old male presented in the emergency room with slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation."
- (medicine) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth
- (fencing) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent
- (mathematics) The specification of a group by generators and relators.
- The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
- If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.
- (immunology) The preparation of antigen fragments during the immune response
Derived terms
Related terms
- presentational
- presentationally
Translations
Anagrams
- penetrations
Old French
Noun
presentation f (oblique plural presentations, nominative singular presentation, nominative plural presentations)
- presentation (act of presenting something or someone)
- presentation (demonstration)
Descendants
- ? English: presentation
- French: présentation
Swedish
Etymology
From French présentation, from présenter + -ation, equivalent to presentera +? -ation. Cognate with English presentation, German Präsentation, Norwegian Bokmål presentasjon, Norwegian Nynorsk presentasjon and Danish præsentation.
Noun
presentation c
- a presentation
Declension
Related terms
- presentatör
- presentera
Anagrams
- prestationen
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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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