Concessioners

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Individuals or companies that sell products or refreshments at public events or specific locations provide goods and services to attendees or visitors
2. Vendors who manage booths or stands at events often supply food, beverages, or merchandise to patrons in designated areas
3. People or companies responsible for selling goods or refreshments within designated public spaces like stadiums or fairs

Etymology: "Concessioners" is the plural of "concessioner", formed in English by adding the agent suffix "-er" to "concession". The base word carries the main history: "concession" came into English from Latin "concessio", a noun from "concedere", meaning "to yield" or "grant", built from "con-" (together, thoroughly) and "cedere" (to go, yield). The sense of a grant of rights, such as a licence to trade in a particular place, is what gives the word its commercial flavour, and a concessioner is simply someone who holds such a grant. The suffix does most of the work in "concessioner". The ending "-er" traces back through Old French "-ier" to Latin "-arius", which denoted a person connected with a task or trade. It passed into Old English as "-ere", the ancestor of the modern ending that now attaches to countless ordinary nouns.

Synonyms: vendors, merchants, dealers, distributors, suppliers