concessional
nounEtymology From concession + -al.
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Australia A resident of a nursing home who has limited means and whose accommodation is consequently partly paid for by the government.
- Every weekend and after work she'd done the rounds of the nursing homes. All are bound by law to take a percentage of 'concessionals'. But the waiting lists! On one he's placed at seventy-five.2005, Celeste Walters, Deception, page 119:
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Synonym of concessive.
- […] where the subordinate clause expresses a contingency that applies to the main clause — timing and placing, conditionals, concessionals and all the other kinds of so-called adverbial clauses.2004, John Sinclair, Ronald Carter, Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse (page 110)