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concessional en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English concession Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English concessional From concession + -al.

Meanings

1. Of, relating to, or being a concession; concessionary.

Forms

concessional en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English concession Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English concessional From concession + -al.

Meanings

1. (Australia) A resident of a nursing home who has limited means and whose accommodation is consequently partly paid for by the government.
   • Every weekend and after work she'd done the rounds of the nursing homes. All are bound by law to take a percentage of 'concessionals'. But the waiting lists! On one he's placed at seventy-five. 2005, Celeste Walters, Deception, page 119:
2. Synonym of concessive.
   • […] where the subordinate clause expresses a contingency that applies to the main clause — timing and placing, conditionals, concessionals and all the other kinds of so-called adverbial clauses. 2004, John Sinclair, Ronald Carter, Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse (page 110)

Forms

Synonyms

concessive