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concern - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To have to do with or relate to.
- intransitive verb To be of interest or importance to.
- intransitive verb To engage the attention of; involve.
- intransitive verb To cause anxiety or uneasiness in.
- intransitive verb To be of importance.
- noun A matter that relates to or affects one.
- noun Regard for or interest in someone or something.
- noun A troubled or anxious state of mind.
- noun A business establishment or enterprise; a firm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To relate or pertain to; have an intimate relation to or connection with.
- To affect the interest of; have interest for; be of importance to.
- To interest; busy; occupy; engage: used reflexively or in the passive voice: as, to
concern one's self in the affairs of others; I was not concerned in that transaction. - To disturb; make uneasy or anxious; cause disquiet to; trouble: generally in the past participle: as, to be deeply concerned about the safety of a friend.
- To confuse with drink; slightly intoxicate: in the past participle.
- Synonyms To interest, touch, affect.
- noun That which relates or pertains to one; matter of concernment; business; affair.
- noun Interest; matter of importance; that which affects one's welfare or happiness.
- noun Solicitous regard; solicitude; anxiety; agitation or uneasiness of mind; disturbed state of feeling; trouble.
- noun An establishment or firm for the transaction of business; a manufacturing or commercial establishment; a business house.
- noun A material object, especially one that is complicated or large; a contrivance: with a touch of depreciation.
- noun Synonyms Solicitude, etc. (see
care ); Concern at, about, for (seeunconcerned ); carefulness, thoughtfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To be of importance.
- transitive verb To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
- transitive verb To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
- noun That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.
- noun That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.
- noun Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.
- noun (Com.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business.
- noun all connected with a particular affair or business.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which affects one's welfare or happiness
- noun The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- noun A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- verb transitive To
be ofimportance to. - verb transitive To make somebody
worried .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- verb be on the mind of
- noun a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- noun an anxious feeling
- noun something that interests you because it is important or affects you
- verb be relevant to
- noun a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English concernen, from Old French concerner, from Medieval Latin concernere, from Late Latin, to mingle together : Latin com-, com- + Latin cernere, to sift; see krei- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Medieval Latin concernere ("to distinguish, to have respect to"), combined form of con- + cernō ("distinguish")
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Examples
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MARTIN: One more thing I wanted to ask you about, if you're a single head of household and your main concern is to take care of your children but they are minors, what do you do?
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MARTIN: One more thing I wanted to ask you about, if you're a single head of household and your main concern is to take care of your children but they are minors, what do you do?
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How To Stick Out In A Crowded InternetIf you have a blog, then you know that your main concern is to get people to the web site and you want them to comment.
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MARTIN: One more thing I wanted to ask you about, if you're a single head of household and your main concern is to take care of your children but they are minors, what do you do?
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One main concern is where to store all that atomic waste produced by nuclear fission.
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The republicans main concern is how to make the country fail under Obama.
McConnell: Health care bill a 'legislative train wreck' 2009
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How To Stick Out In A Crowded InternetIf you have a blog, then you know that your main concern is to get people to the web site and you want them to comment.
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MARTIN: One more thing I wanted to ask you about, if you're a single head of household and your main concern is to take care of your children but they are minors, what do you do?
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- Aktiengesellschaft
- TLC
- absorb
- academic discipline
- academic specialty
- accent
- accommodatingness
- activities
- activity
- affair
- affairs
- affect
- affect the interest
- agency
- agitate
- agitation
- agreeableness
- ail
- aktiebolag
- all-overs
- angst
- answer to
- anticipation
- anxiety
- anxiety hysteria
- anxiety neurosis
- anxious bench
- anxious concern
- anxious seat
- anxiousness
- appertain to
- applicability
- application
- applied science
- apply to
- appositeness
- apprehension
- apprehensiveness
- area
- arena
- art
- atelier
- attention
- attentiveness
- attract
- awareness
- bag
- barbershop
- basis
- be about
- be the matter
- bear on
- bear upon
- bearing
- beauty parlor
- beauty shop
- belong to
- bench
- beset
- body corporate
- bother
- burden
- business
- business establishment
- butcher shop
- cankerworm of care
- care
- carefulness
- caring
- cartel
- case
- catch up in
- cathexis
- caution
- chamber of commerce
- chapter
- charge
- chord
- circumspection
- circumspectness
- combine
- commerce
- commercial enterprise
- compagnie
- company
- complaisance
- complicate matters
- concernment
- conglomerate
- conglomerate corporation
- connect
- connection
- consciousness
- consequence
- consequentiality
- considerateness
- consideration
- consolidating company
- consortium
- copartnership
- corporate body
- corporation
- correspond to
- curiosity
- deal with
- delicacy
- department of knowledge
- desk
- discipline
- discommode
- disquiet
- disquietude
- distress
- disturb
- disturbance
- diversified corporation
- doing
- domain
- doubt
- draw in
- dread
- dubiety
- duty
- echo
- embarrass
- empathy
- emphasis
- employ
- employment
- engage
- enmesh
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- enterprise
- enthusiasm
- essence
- establishment
- excellence
- excite
- excite interest
- facility
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- field
- field of inquiry
- field of study
- firm
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- foreboding
- forebodingness
- forethought
- frazzle
- function
- germaneness
- gimmick
- gist
- give concern
- gizmo
- harass
- have connection with
- head
- heading
- heed
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- helpfulness
- high order
- high rank
- holding company
- house
- identification
- implicate
- import
- importance
- incertitude
- inconvenience
- indulgence
- industry
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- installation
- institution
- interest
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- invite
- involve
- involve in
- involvement
- irk
- irresolution
- issue
- jigger
- job
- joint-stock association
- joint-stock company
- labor
- leniency
- liaise with
- link with
- living issue
- loft
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- loving care
- main point
- malaise
- mark
- materiality
- matter
- matter in hand
- matter of interest
- meat
- merit
- mindfulness
- misgiving
- mistrust
- moment
- motif
- motive
- natural science
- nervous strain
- nervous tension
- nervousness
- note
- obligingness
- occasions
- occupation
- ology
- operating company
- organization
- outfit
- overanxiety
- palaver
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- passion
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- perplex
- pertain to
- pertinence
- perturb
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- pins and needles
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- point
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- pool
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- precedence
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- preparedness
- primacy
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- problem
- proceeding
- province
- provoke
- public utility
- pucker
- pure science
- put out
- put to it
- puzzle
- question
- refer to
- reference
- regard
- regardfulness
- relate to
- relatedness
- relating
- relation
- relevance
- respect
- response
- responsibility
- responsiveness
- rubric
- science
- self-importance
- service
- sharing
- shop
- shtick
- significance
- skepticism
- social science
- solicitousness
- solicitude
- special interest
- specialty
- sphere
- stew
- stimulate
- stock company
- strain
- stress
- studio
- study
- subject
- subject matter
- subject of thought
- substance
- suck into
- superiority
- supremacy
- suspense
- suspicion
- sweatshop
- sympathetic chord
- sympathetic response
- sympathy
- syndicate
- tact
- tactfulness
- tangle
- tantalize
- task
- technicology
- technics
- technology
- tender loving care
- tension
- text
- theme
- thing
- thought
- thoughtfulness
- tickle
- tie in with
- titillate
- toleration
- topic
- torment
- touch
- touch on
- touch upon
- trade association
- transaction
- treat of
- trouble
- trust
- undertaking
- unease
- uneasiness
- unquietness
- unsettle
- upset
- utility
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- vex
- vexation
- vibes
- vibrations
- weight
- widget
- wonder
- work
- work site
- work space
- workbench
- workhouse
- working space
- workplace
- workroom
- workshop
- worktable
- worry
- worth
- zeal
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