concede
Grant the point
To concede is to admit something reluctantly or under pressure: I concede that you have a point.
In competitions, to concede is to acknowledge defeat before the final result is official: The candidate conceded the election.
Concede also means to yield or grant something: The company conceded several demands to the union.
A goal conceded is one allowed by the defending team.
Cease resistance, yield
- capitulateYield under pressure
- submitPresent for consideration
- give inCease resistance, concede
- relinquishVoluntarily give up control
cede · relent · succumb · back down · defer · forfeit · abdicate · resign
Confirm receipt or truth
- confessAcknowledge wrongdoing openly
- acceptConsent to receive
- recognizePerceive as known
- grantBestow or award money
allow · own up · avow · disclose · admit · agree · affirm · declaration
Bestow or award money
- awardHonor given for merit
- giveTo transfer possession
- conferDiscuss or bestow
- allowGrant permission for
permit · yield · extend · accord · offer · provide · allocate · transfer
Fail to keep
- accept defeatAcknowledge loss gracefully
- fallDescend under gravity
- beatenHaving lost a contest
- vanquishedDefeated completely
outplayed · overcome · bested · overpowered · routed · trounced · outmatched · crushed
Agreement through mutual sacrifice
- bargainFavorable purchase price
- settleReach final terms
- trade-offExchange requiring sacrifice
- give-and-takeMutual concession between parties
mediate · arbitrate · middle ground · conciliation · agreement · deal · accord · reconcile
With reluctant compliance
- hesitantlyWith uncertain manner
- reluctantlyWith obvious unwillingness
- unwillinglyWithout wanting to
- begrudginglyWith unwilling acceptance
reservations · qualms · misgivings · doubt · reticence · ambivalence · half-heartedly · under protest
surrender
Cease resistance, yield
- capitulateYield under pressure
- submitPresent for consideration
- give inCease resistance, concede
relinquish · cede · relent · succumb · back down · defer · forfeit · abdicate · resign · acquiesce
acknowledge
Confirm receipt or truth
grant · allow · own up · avow · disclose · admit · agree · affirm · declaration · confession
grant
Bestow or award money
allow · permit · yield · extend · accord · offer · provide · allocate · transfer · hand over
lose
Fail to keep
- accept defeatAcknowledge loss gracefully
- fallDescend under gravity
- beatenHaving lost a contest
vanquished · outplayed · overcome · bested · overpowered · routed · trounced · outmatched · crushed · undone
compromise
Agreement through mutual sacrifice
give-and-take · mediate · arbitrate · middle ground · conciliation · agreement · deal · accord · reconcile · adjust
grudgingly
With reluctant compliance
- hesitantlyWith uncertain manner
- reluctantlyWith obvious unwillingness
- unwillinglyWithout wanting to
begrudgingly · reservations · qualms · misgivings · doubt · reticence · ambivalence · half-heartedly · under protest · dragging feet
- electionsballot, ballots, voter registration, candidates, polls
- competition verbscompete, rival, contend, challenge, oppose
- game movesmove, dodge, play, pass, block
- losing phrasesgame over, you lose, lose out, defeated, beaten
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate
- acknowledgeadmit, confess, recognize, confirm, accept
- concession standVenue food sales point
- concession speechLoser's formal acknowledgment speech
- I concedeAcknowledge another's victory
- concession speechesDefeated candidates' farewell remarks
- stadium concessionsFood sold at games
- minimal concessionsLeast possible yielding
concession, conceded, concessions, conceding, concedes, concessionaire, concessionary