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PureJimi Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Concede as in surrender
Hello,
I've come to understand that concede can mean to admit or accept a position of your opponent reluctantly as in:
"I concede your point."
However, since concede can also mean to yield or surrender. Is it not possible to use concede in a fashion to surrender a position you previously accepted to be true? So for example...
"I concede my position on global warming."
I've come to understand that concede can mean to admit or accept a position of your opponent reluctantly as in:
"I concede your point."
However, since concede can also mean to yield or surrender. Is it not possible to use concede in a fashion to surrender a position you previously accepted to be true? So for example...
"I concede my position on global warming."
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This is the more common way of expressing concession:
"I concede that my position on global warming was wrong."
"I concede that my position on global warming was wrong."
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