concessional

Examples

• All

• As the crisis deepened in the late 1980s and the 1990s, debt-relief efforts continued on increasingly concessional terms.

  Academic text (2001)

• Australia will provide $50 million in concessional credits to augment India's deep-sea fishing industry.

  Academic text (1990)

• To date, efforts to obtain oil under concessional terms from Mexico and Venezuela.

  Academic text (1992)

• Accordingly, it was no longer willing to provide India with weaponry at highly concessional rates.

  Academic text (1997)

• At the end of 2005, its concessional loans to all of Africa reached $800 million and covered 55 projects in 22 countries.

  Academic text (2008)

• At the same time, the World Bank continues to support the call for increased concessional flows and debt reduction for sub-Saharan Africa.

  Academic text (1992)

• Roughly two-thirds of this assistance was concessional.

  Academic text (1992)

• The privatization measures benefit those who are able to buy up or buy into state-owned enterprises, usually at concessional prices.

  Academic text (1995)

• Since most of Ghana's debt is long-term and on concessional terms, its higher debt levels do not pose a burden.

  Academic text (1991)

• All of this is on concessional terms, and a good deal of it—approximately 80 percent—is grant money.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

P

preferential

vsconcessional

35 6.0

To give an advantage to one person or group over others

focuses on offering easier terms as a form of help rather than favoritism

C

concessionary

vsconcessional

• Specialized

7.2

Available on better terms than normal for loans, fares, or contracts

serves a general help purpose by offering easier terms to certain groups

Antonyms

U

unfavorable

• US

31 4.5

Not good for success or approval

How Favorable

subsidized

• US

4.1

concessional

• Specialized

1 6.8

reduced

1.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology