concessional

English

Etymology

From concession + -al.

Adjective

concessional (comparative more concessional, superlative most concessional)

1. Of, relating to, or being a concession; concessionary.

Noun

concessional (plural concessionals)

1. (Australia) A resident of a nursing home who has limited means and whose accommodation is consequently partly paid for by the government.
   • 2005, Celeste Walters, Deception, page 119:

     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.

2. (grammar) Synonym of concessive.
   • 2004, John Sinclair, ‎Ronald Carter, Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse (page 110)

     […] 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.