- allowed or admitted as true, proper, just, etc.:A professional liar, when cornered, will strategically acknowledge a point without giving up the debate; those conceded points should form the basis of your response.
- acknowledged without or before being officially confirmed:That argument did not set a legal precedent, because it was a conceded point and not a legally established one.In golf, a conceded putt is one your opponent gives you, without you completing the shot.
- granted or yielded in a negotiation:Later that year, the oil company returned with security guards to install its equipment on the conceded territory.
- the simple past tense and past participle of concede.
