concession(SOMETHING ALLOWED)

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to say that you are wrong
confessRawlinson finally confessed to the robbery.
own upCome on, own up - who's eaten the last sandwich?
fess upFess up - you wanted to go to the cinema instead, didn't you?
come cleanI decided to come clean about the broken vase.
concedeShe did eventually concede that the instructions were not very clear.
admitHe admitted that he had been wrong.
[ I or T ]
to admit that you have lost in a competition: 认输;承认（失败）
He kept on arguing and wouldn't concede defeat.他一直争论个不停，不愿认输。
She conceded even before all the votes had been counted.选票还没全部统计出来她就认输了。
She conceded defeat well before all the votes had been counted.
Hysen handled the ball and conceded the penalty that gave Manchester United the lead.海森控球犯规，给了曼联队一次罚球机会，使他们取得了领先。
Clinton conceded, "We bit off more than we could chew in our original healthcare reform proposals."
He conceded that he had been a little harsh.
Reluctantly she conceded that their idea was better.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Admitting & confessing
acknowledge something as something
acknowledgedly
acknowledgment
admission of guilt
admittedly
avowedly
breastbeating
clean
climb down
come cleanidiom
confess
hold/put your hands upidiom
retraction
self-admittedly
self-confessed
self-confessedly
self-confession
stand
swallow your wordsidiom
take something back

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Losing and being defeated

concedeverb (GIVE AWAY)

C2[ T ]
to allow someone to have something, even if you do not want to: （不情愿地）让步，答应给，让与
The president is not expected to concede these reforms.估计总统不会同意这些改革。
He is not willing to concede any of his power/authority.他不愿交出自己的任何权力。
Britain conceded (= allowed) independence to India in 1947.英国在1947年承认印度独立。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accepting & agreeing reluctantly
accede to something
acceptance
acquiescence
be resigned to somethingidiom
bend to something
bow
bow down to someone
cave in
concede
crack
like it or lump itidiom
resign yourself to something
resignation
resigned
resignedly
resort to something
settle for something
shoulder
tolerate
trade something off
 concede a goal/point
to fail to stop an opposing team or person from winning a point or game: 没能阻止对方进球（或得分）
The team conceded two goals (to the other side) in the first five minutes of the game.开赛后5分钟内，球队就送了（对方）两个球。

Examples of conceded

conceded

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It does seem, however, that the vessels may be more similar in morphology to bronchial arteries than has previously been conceded.
If circularities of that sort are conceded, pretty much anything can be legitimated with anything.
Secondly, and as conceded by the authors, any role of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy remains to be examined in future studies.
But even justified refusals could later, under pressure, be overturned and acquittal conceded all the same.
By 1898, even the most vocal supporters of the bill conceded that the bill's impact would be mostly symbolic.
The right of all to pasture their cattle upon unenclosed ground is universally conceded.
In the case of publicly-owned uplands, this was carried out by private firms who were conceded exploitation rights by the state or local authorities.
Once conceded, appropriation rights are powerful tools in the control of a resource and the formal owner has not much control any more.
Many officials, it must be conceded, held creoles in contempt.
It would appear, from what they have conceded from the complexity of history, that the inference from (2) to (3) is problematic.
Wage cutting in the early 1930s appeared to be almost as competitive as the sporadic wage increases conceded between 1917 and 1919.
The right of a woman to retain her maiden name in marriage was not conceded until 1976.
Now is the crucial moment; we may be unable to control the territory, but this must not be conceded.
In light of what we have conceded in the present section, we will not say that anymore.
He conceded nothing to the rules when he saw nothing coming from them.
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