(U.S.) = prec. sb.

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1880.  Contemp. Rev., XXXVII. 367. The concessioner, so far, has had three separate bodies of men to bribe.

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1883.  L. Oliphant, Masollam, I. iii. 41–2. He had decided to let it [a house] and go abroad, partly to economise, and partly in the hope of finding some scheme with which he might identify himself as a promoter or concessioner, which would furnish him with the capital necessary to meet his most pressing creditors.

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