concessionaryadj.n.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Concessionary,..by Way of Grant or Allowance.

1764 J. Mayhew Remarks Anonymous Tract 56 The sentiments of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury..which, as I am informed, were exactly agreeable to this gentleman's, in the concessionary part of his performance.

1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. iii. v. 309 Those are Concessionary, not Conservative principles.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Oct. 6/2 The concessionary company.

1957 Mich. Business Rev. Nov. 31/2 Management is more concessionary than adamant with regard to retaining its unilateral control.

1990 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 21/5 Trains are packed with concessionary travellers.

2000 Transport Matters Spring 3/4 School and college students, elderly and disabled passengers will soon get state-of-the-art smartcards to ‘pay’ their concessionary fares using a computer chip.

2011 A. I. Ahram Proxy Warriors iv. 98 To finance his notoriously profligate spending, the shah turned increasingly to concessionary agreements with European powers.

1812 A. Stoddard Sketches Louisiana vii. 245 They authorised concessionaries to levy them where they pleased on the vacant lands of the public domain.

1857 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 11 May Mr. F. de Lesseps, the promoter and concessionary of the Suez Canal project.

1888 Catal. Jaeger's Woollen Syst. (title page) Sole Concessionaries for Great Britain and the British Possessions.

1914 Unpopular Rev. Oct. 426 The ordinary conduct of exploitative business in an undeveloped state keeps the concessionary in constant relation with the consular and diplomatic officers established there.

2013 H. F. G. Bruera Lula, Workers' Party & Governability Dilemma in Brazil i. iv. 65 Concessionaries were making large profits and provided poor services.