🎟️ Reduced price 💰 Favorable terms

concessionary

6.1

Offered at a lower price to people like students and older people

adjective
/kənˈsɛʃənˌɛri/

: concesionario

Many museums offer concessionary tickets to students and pensioners.

Examples

The concessionary fare makes public transport more affordable for young people.
You must show your ID to receive the concessionary rate at the gym.
The concessionary prices made it affordable for everyone.
Many theaters provide concessionary tickets for seniors.
Many museums offer concessionary tickets to students and pensioners.
You must show your ID to receive the concessionary rate at the gym.
Many theaters provide concessionary tickets for seniors.

Synonyms

concessional

vsconcessionary

Specialized

1 6.8

Provided at a lower cost to help people or groups

focuses on reduced price for specific groups rather than general easier terms

subsidized

vsconcessionary

4.1

The government partly pays for it to make it cheaper for people

focuses on reduced price for certain groups rather than funding source

Antonyms

premium

74 4.3

Higher quality and more expensive than normal

How Discounted

subsidized

4.1

concessionary

6.1

reduced

1.6

Surface Forms

concessionary positive

Morphology

concessionary = concession (transparent) = concession + ary

Formed by adding the adjectival suffix '-ary' to 'concession', yielding 'relating to or granted as a concession', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Concessionary comes from concession, which is related to concede and means 'to give'. So a concessionary ticket is a price 'given' lower to certain people like students and seniors.