Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of yielding to a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. 2. (n.) A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal.

Multi-Version Concordance Concession (2 Occurrences) Acts 25:3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way. (See NAS) 1 Corinthians 7:6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. (WEB WEY ASV NAS RSV NIV)