The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SOP
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More clues leading to the result SOP
- Small operation that’s offered as a concession
- Bribe Henry to leave store
- Very soft bread dipped in gravy?
- Old soak needs small operation
- Concession that’s very pleasing at first
- Like this parking concession
- Concession from store husband extracted
- Very soft piece of bread
- Cleaner spurning a bribe
- Granted, this is small and, in short, high-pitched
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The straight part
We know that "concession" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case concession = sop.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SOP mean?
SOP noun- Something entirely soaked.
- A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
- A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
- Gravy.
- A thing of little or no value.
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
- To steep or dip in any liquid.
- To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.