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concede English

Meaning concede meaning

What does concede mean?
Definitions in simple English

concede Verb

— If you concede, you admit to something after resisting it. I have to concede the argument. He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win. Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.

concede

— verb (= confess) admit (to a wrongdoing) She confessed that she had taken the money — verb (= grant) be willing to concede I grant you this much — verb give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another — verb acknowledge defeat The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose

Synonyms concede synonyms

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concede English » English

admit yield give up grant give way allow acknowledge confess surrender recognize profess give in consent cede accept submit permit avow agree accede vouchsafe relinquish quit give deliver concession capitulate accord yielding yield up withdraw vacate tolerate take succumb skillful sign over sanction retreat resign renounce claim render relent recognition recognise present plead guilty own lose license

Topics concede topics

What do people use concede to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Game

Chess
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Renounce claim, concede
Social behavior Conflict War

Surrender

Conjugation concede conjugation

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Examples concede examples

How do I use concede in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Neither side will concede.

Movie subtitles

Will Mr. Norton concede human life is in constant peril in this wild region from which this child was rescued?
No, I will not concede any such thing.
My dear Charles, if we concede your argument, there is no solution.
We are very happy to concede Mr. Gailey's claims.
Will you concede defeat?
Oh I concede.
I concede Mr. Deveraux's contribution to his state but that does not give him the right to flout the laws of this state.
I concede.
The defence will concede that Mrs. Manion, when dressed informally is an astonishingly beautiful woman.
What did Tony have to concede?
The powerhouse, the telephone exchange, these I concede.
You concede the necessity of goin' to school. we'll keep right on readin' the same every night. just as we always have.
We must concede that, during the night, a few things occurred that were slightly uncalled for.
First, you'll have to concede I'm not a fool.
Our paper had to concede his great success, organized, it must be said, by the Arab Office.
Unless you want to concede the victory.
I concede nothing. until they throw dirt in my face.
I'll concede that.
I concede to violence.
Your foe has bloodied you, sir knight. Will you concede defeat?
Oh, I concede.
Well, I concede that.
I hope the jury won't take all afternoon. I concede.
I concede defeat.
Your Honor, we're prepared to concede that it's possible. Mr. Tyler did in fact marry Miss Farley.
Oh, I concede the conspicuous difference in our ages.
Concede - then give way around.
You concede the necessity of going to school, we'll keep right on reading the same every night just as we always have.
Therefore, in the interest of progress and harmony I am willing to concede to your point of view.
Confide and we concede.
We applaud his private war, and concede that, despite materialistic efforts, he has survived intact and secure.
We concede.
I concede defeat. - Bad luck.
Well, strictly speaking, one must concede that, in a sense.

News and current affairs

Even its backers concede that achieving this target won't be easy - and they are right.
Let us concede that child marriage, female circumcision, and the like are not found reprehensible by many societies; but let us also ask the victims of these practices how they feel.
Two Baltic presidents have decided to stay home, because their hosts are not willing to concede that there is more to the history of WWII's end than the victory over Hitler.
I concede that the salaries of my overpaid friends are high enough to meet virtually all of their foreseeable needs.
The Sunni-Shia rivalry means that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries will concede no meaningful role to Iran.
Or he could have adopted a less aggressive strategy: Concede from the start the German principle that debts are sacrosanct and then show that austerity could be eased without any reduction in the face value of Greek debt.
The main differences between the leading Israeli parties are more atmospheric than real, mainly concerning how much to concede and how much to demand.
Even the most dedicated partisans of international justice concede that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has had many shortcomings.
We cannot be sure what impact the mission had on Wade's ultimate decision to concede defeat to Sall, but knowing that the region was watching must have focused his mind.
Today, many former officials associated with those policies, such as Mushahid Hussain, a former information minister, concede that Pakistan should have contained militancy long ago.
Perpetrators of violent acts rarely concede that they are aggression pure and simple, rather than actions in defense of life, liberty, or some other important value.
This should not, of course, be taken to mean that the patriots gushing over Lugovoi's achievement concede the justice of the British allegations.
In Europe, the establishment of the European Research Council (ERC) is entering a decisive phase, with crucial implications concerning the role we are prepared to concede to scientific curiosity.
Whatever one thinks of American military intervention, one must concede that it has altered the region's dynamics.
Saddam knew that he didn't have weapons of mass destruction, but he was unwilling to concede the right of inspectors to ask.
The centrist Liberal Democrats appeared to hold the balance of power, and stories circulated of how Heath was prepared to concede a reformed voting system.
But Obama's team does concede one point: New START fails to curtail Russia's large numerical advantage in tactical nuclear weapons.
The most likely interpretation is that those at the top no longer want to concede anything when it comes to stability.
They are the first to concede that their growth and development strategy is at a critical juncture.
For starters, there is little or nothing that other EU governments can concede on the free movement of people, which is enshrined in the founding document of European integration, the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
Reforms that made the tax system simpler, fairer, and less distortionary would have a beneficial effect on economic growth, although economists concede that the size of this effect is uncertain and impossible to quantify.
Such debates concede that these religious concepts are generally valid, even when, as in the fundamentalists' case, they simply do not apply.
In a concession to commonsense, they concede that people may make mistakes and, to that extent, a stimulus may be beneficial.
During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.
Indeed, she had no choice but to concede and agree to far-reaching changes to the EU's new fiscal compact that will ease refinancing of the crisis countries and their banks.
After all, because biology-based arguments about gender difference have historically been used to justify women's subjugation, women have been reluctant to concede any innate difference, lest it be used against them.

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