to concede victory

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The defeated prime minister and social democratic leader E... has conceded victory but says he may challenge the elections in court.

This sentence is transcribed from a piece of news on the general election of the Czech Republic of the 5th of June, 2006 of the BBC world service.

Philologist · Accepted Answer

He has admitted that he lost the elections <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' alt='Emotion: smile'/>

Jingtian · Answer

So can we conclude that sometimes "to concede victory" means the same as "to concede defeat" while other times these two mean the opposite to each other?

Marius Hancu · Answer

to concede victory
is strange, IMO

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concede

to acknowledge as won by an opponent without formal determination of the result <South trumped the return and the opponents conceded the rest of the tricks> <the senator conceded the election shortly after midnight> d : to acknowledge a person to have <even his enemies concede him courage>
intransitive verb : to make : http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?book=Third&va=yield
synonym see http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?book=Third&va=grant

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normally
conceded the election as in the above

Jingtian · Answer

Thanks and sorry for the late reply.

to concede victory

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