concede
Meaning
Verb
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
- To yield or make concession.
- To have a goal or point scored against
- (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
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Origin
- From Middle English, from Old French conceder, from Latin concedō ("give way, yield"), from con- + cedō, from Proto-Indo-European *ked- ("to go, yield").
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