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 conceding

conceding

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

They can use locutions for claiming a proposition and for challenging, conceding and retracting a claimed proposition.
Theists, then, might want to pause before conceding a divine power to conserve things later in time.
But in the meantime, there is nothing inherently irrational about conceding to mystery.
They require conceding in advance a common empirical experience of the matters at hand.
Most scholars working on privatisation would find ' conceding ' a rather awkward term.
Prospective proponents of universal worker protection policy retreated, conceding business prerogatives in the labor market.
This allows the bourgeoisie to admit the harmful consequences of industrialization (accidents are caused events) without conceding its own responsibility (accidents are undesired events).
The case definition for measles surveillance cannot be made more specific without conceding on sensitivity.
Most sought seasonal labour without conceding any land.
Conceding rationality is not saying the final word about the worthiness or goodness of a belief.
The game contains speech acts for conceding and challenging a claim, for stating and conceding arguments, and for challenging challenges of a claim.
However, even conceding my claim, what if their interpretive understanding is shared by many people in society, regardless of its inadequacies?
Many of the arguments will be legitimate complaints, and we are likely to respond by either defending the grading, or conceding an adjustment in it.
This is true in part because we sometimes have difficulty conceding that others suffer as much as we do.
Nevertheless, it only focuses on the policy of selling and conceding public assets in which the institutions of the central government engaged during the 1990s.
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