concedern.
/kənˈsiːdə/, U.S. /kənˈsidər/ A person who concedes something.
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1688 F. Nicholson & O. Walker in A. Woodhead Compend. Disc. Eucharist App. I. 170 I see not what the Conceders have further to alledge against Adoration.
1762 G. Heathcote Let. Ld. Mayor 65 A Sketch of the Value of the Present, said to be intended, by our generous Conceders to be made to France only.
1768 G. Ridley 2nd Let. to Author of Confessional iii. 79 The authority of the conceders, I suppose, you will not admit as decisive.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 614/1 The British cabinet adopted the most unfortunate of all causes—concession; and for this purpose selected the most unfitting of all conceders, the Earl Fitzwilliam.
1869 O. Tiffany Sacred Biogr. & Hist. (new ed.) i. 41 The claims of the party to whom the concession is made..are only equal..to those of the conceder.
1965 Econometrica 33 810 It seems reasonable to assume that the conceder's distribution function..remains invariant with respect to his own concessions.
1999 D. M. Gitlitz & L. K. Davidson Drizzle of Honey 82 Fish and fishing..provided a healthy income to the conceders of fishing rights.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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