concessionaire
- noun
- /kənˌsɛʃəˈnɛr/
- Specialized
- The concessionaire was questioned concerning employer illnesses and food handling and preparation procedures.
Examples
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Many concessionaires compete for the opportunity to operate within the busy airport terminal.
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And, over the fall, officials worked to get an agreement with a concessionaire to sell lunches and snacks to visitors.
Academic text (2002) -
For example, Disney on Ice brings its own concessionaires, and many music acts have their own security teams.
Blog text (18) -
One concessionaire stated that 100 truckloads of large particles were hauled away from the beach.
Academic text (2008) -
At Denali National Park last year, the park superintendent approved changes in a transportation contract that would allow the concessionaire to use larger buses on the road through the park and to build a maintenance facility within the park itself.
Academic text (1995) -
They leased it out to candy concessionaires.
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New stadiums create jobs, they say, for the construction workers who build them, the ushers and concessionaires who work in them, and the restaurateurs who go into business around them.
Academic text (1998) -
The concessionaire at the stadium provides a variety of food and drinks during events.
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As a concessionaire, she has the right to sell souvenirs in the museum's gift shop.
Synonyms
A person or company that runs a business using another company's name and way of working
A business that sells goods to people at places like a stadium or park
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Surface Forms
Morphology
concessionaire = concession (semi-transparent) = concession + aire
The meaning is clearly related to 'concession', but the suffix '-aire' is a borrowed agentive/formational ending that is less transparently productive for average learners.
Etymology
Concessionaire comes from the word concession meaning 'something given' and the ending -aire meaning 'a person who does something'. So a concessionaire is the person or company who is 'given' the right to sell or run a business in a place, like the snack seller at a stadium or the company that manages park services.