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plural concessionaries
one who owns a concession or a franchise quotations examples
That Government seized the Delagoa Bay Railway, which was constructed under a concession granted to an American citizen, and at the same time annulled the charter. The concessionary, who had embarked his fortune in the enterprise, having exhausted other means of redress, was compelled to invoke the protection of his Government.
1890, Benjamin Harrison, State of the Union Address
not generally comparable, comparative more concessionary, superlative most concessionary
relating to concessions or franchises examples
making concessions or compromises quotations examples
I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are Concessionary, not Conservative principles.
1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby (The New Generation)