Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes or favors concessions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who favors concession.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who advocates
concession
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Examples
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Christopher Campbell has worked in the trenches of the movie theater industry for many years, employed by three different companies, in both art houses and multiplexes, as everything from a concessionist to a manager of concession operations.
Christopher Campbell's The Moviegoer - Our Economic Crisis « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Señor Villablanca, the wealthy rubber concessionist, reposed his fat figure on two chairs, with an emollient smile beaming upon his chocolate-coloured face.
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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Interior, where an interview was to take place with this man so greatly feared and hated at the court of the Sovereign Pontiff, by that non-concessionist faction which wished to rule at the Vatican.
The Saint Antonio Fogazzaro 1876
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This red, white, and blue thing is like an invisible cloak – they’ll never know I’m really a concessionist Alaskan husky!
Beat 360° 09/02/08 2008
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