CONCEDING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of conceding or yielding

Synonyms:

conceding; concession; yielding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("conceding" is a kind of...):

acquiescence; assent (agreement with a statement or proposal to do something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conceding"):

bye; pass (an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent)

Derivation:

concede (be willing to concede)

concede (acknowledge defeat)

concede (give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another)

-ing form of the verb concede