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🎁 A small concession 🥣 To dip bread 💧 To soak 🤝 To appease 🍞 A dipped piece
sop

sop

3 8.6
A small thing given to calm someone who is angry or unhappy
  • noun
  • /sɑp/
translation icon : concesión
  • Many viewed the tax cut as a sop to appease the wealthy and gain their support.

Just kind of see how they did business kind of sops.

Examples

  • The whole idea of deathbed conversion strikes you as false, a sop for the dying.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The priesthood was promoted as a sop to men for their deficiencies.

    Blog text (7)

  • The public option was a political sop to those who wanted single-payer.

    Blog text (15)

  • The original legislation acted properly there," she added as a sop.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • SCHUYLER: As a sop to the neighborhood.

    You've Got Mail (1998)

  • Regulatory schemes, no matter how modest, should not be propounded just as a sop to bureaucrats, to avoid hurting their feelings or to enlist their support.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The government offered a sop to the protesters by promising to review their concerns.

  • The management provided a small bonus as a sop to calm the unhappy employees after the layoffs.

Synonyms

concession
vssop
52 5.1

Saying you accept a point or a demand so talks can continue

is a specific thing given to calm anger rather than an act of yielding

Antonyms

rejection
180 3.0

Not being accepted by people or a group

How Appeasing

bribe
137 3.6
payoff
31 5.0
sop
3 8.6
concession
102 4.1
token
5 6.7

Surface Forms

sop singular
sops plural

Etymology

Sop meaning a small thing given to calm someone comes from the same picture of offering bread to quiet someone, so a 'sop' is a small gift or concession meant 'to appease' or calm people.