concessional

comparative more concessional · superlative most concessional

1. Of, relating to, or being a concession; concessionary.

plural concessionals

1. AustraliaA resident of a nursing home who has limited means and whose accommodation is consequently partly paid for by the government.

   Every weekend and after work she'd done the rounds of the nursing homes. All are bound by law to take a percentage of 'concessionals'. But the waiting lists! On one he's placed at seventy-five.

   2005, Celeste Walters, Deception, page 119

2. grammarSynonym of concessive.

   […] where the subordinate clause expresses a contingency that applies to the main clause — timing and placing, conditionals, concessionals and all the other kinds of so-called adverbial clauses.

   2004, John Sinclair, Ronald Carter, Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse (page 110)

   Synonyms: concessive