Concession vs. Waiver — What's the Difference?

A thing that is granted, especially in response to demands

A waiver is the voluntary relinquishment or surrender of some known right or privilege. Regulatory agencies of state departments or the federal government may issue waivers to exempt companies from certain regulations.

A preferential allowance or rate given by an organization

Intentional relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege.

The right to use land or other property for a specified purpose, granted by a government, company, or other controlling body

The document that evidences such relinquishment.

The act of conceding.

A dispensation, as from a rule or penalty.

Something, such as a point previously claimed in argument, that is later conceded.

Permission for a professional athletic club to assign a player to the minor leagues or release a player from the club, granted only after all other clubs have been given the opportunity to claim the player and have not done so.

An acknowledgment or admission.

A deferment.

A grant of a tract of land made by a government or other controlling authority in return for stipulated services or a promise that the land will be used for a specific purpose.

To provide with a waiver or issue a waiver for.

The privilege of maintaining a subsidiary business within certain premises.

The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

The space allotted for such a business.

(legal) A legal document removing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless).

The business itself

Something that releases a person from a requirement.

A snack, drink, or other food sold at a concession

(obsolete) The process of waiving or outlawing a person.

The act of conceding.

(transitive) To waive (to relinquish, to forego).

An act of conceding, particularly:

Misspelling of waver

A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.

The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

Land granted by an authority for some specific purpose, particularly: township

A formal written statement of relinquishment

A privilege granted by an authority, especially to conduct business on favorable terms within certain conditions and particularly:

(rhetoric) An admission of the validity of an opponent's point in order to build an argument upon it or to move on to another of greater importance; an instance of this.

(by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.

An admission of defeat following an election.

A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.

A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).

An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.

A person eligible for a concession price (see above).

To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.

The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.

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.

A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business;

The act of conceding or yielding

A point conceded or yielded;