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Tolerance vs Concession - What's the difference?

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Tolerance is a related term of concession.


As nouns the difference between tolerance and concession

is that tolerance is tolerance while concession is the act of conceding, especially that of defeat.

As a verb concession is

to grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.

tolerance

Noun

  • (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
  • (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
  • (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
  • (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
  • (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
  • Antonyms

    * intolerance

    Anagrams

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    concession

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of conceding, especially that of defeat
  • something, such as an argument, that is conceded or admitted to be wrong
  • (rhetoric) Admitting a point to strengthen one's overall case.
  • the grant of some land to be used for a specified purpose
  • (chiefly, US) a contract to operate a small business as a subsidiary of a larger company, or within the premises of some institution; the business itself and the space from which it operates
  • (Canada) In Ontario, a small road between tracts of farmland.
  • Derived terms

    * concessioner

    See also

    * paromologia * paromology

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.
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