to relate to; be connected with; be of interest or importance to; affect: The water shortage concerns us all.
2.
to interest or engage (used reflexively or in the passive, often fol. by with or in): She concerns herself with every aspect of the business.
3.
to trouble, worry, or disquiet: I am concerned about his health.
–noun
4.
something that relates or pertains to a person; business; affair: Law is the concern of lawyers.
5.
a matter that engages a person's attention, interest, or care, or that affects a person's welfare or happiness: The party was no concern of his.
6.
worry, solicitude, or anxiety: to show concern for someone in trouble.
7.
important relation or bearing: This news is of concern to all of us.
8.
a commercial or manufacturing company or establishment: the headquarters of an insurance concern.
9.
Informal. any material object or contrivance.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME concernen (< MF concerner) < ML concernere to relate to, distinguish (LL: to mix for sifting), equiv. to L con-con-+ cernere to sift]
—Synonyms 1. touch, involve. 3. disturb. 5. burden, responsibility. Concern,care,worry connote an uneasy and burdened state of mind. Concern implies an anxious sense of interest in something: concern over a friend's misfortune. Care suggests a heaviness of spirit caused by dread, or by the constant pressure of burdensome demands: Poverty weighs a person down with care. Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market. 8. firm, house.
To have to do with or relate to: an article that concerns the plight of homeless people.
To be of interest or importance to: This problem concerns all of us.
To engage the attention of; involve: We concerned ourselves with accomplishing the task at hand.
To cause anxiety or uneasiness in: The firm's weak financial posture is starting to concern its stockholders.
v.
intr.Obsolete
To be of importance.
n.
A matter that relates to or affects one. See Synonyms at affair.
Regard for or interest in someone or something.
A troubled or anxious state of mind arising from solicitude or interest. See Synonyms at anxiety.
A business establishment or enterprise; a firm.
A contrivance; a gadget.
[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.]
c.1450, from M.L. concernere "concern, touch, belong to," figurative use of L.L. concernere "to sift, mix, as in a sieve," from L. com- "with" + cernere "to sift," hence "perceive, comprehend" (see crisis). Apparently the sense of the prefix shifted to intensive in M.L. Meaning of "relate to" is 16c.; "worry" is 17c. To whom it may concern first recorded 1868.
something that interests you because it is important or affects you; "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern"
2.
an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"
3.
a feeling of sympathy for someone or something; "She felt strong concern for those less fortunate" [ant: unconcern]
4.
something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry"
5.
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: business]
verb
1.
be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" [syn: refer]
2.
be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift"
Care\ (k[^a]r), n. [AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to Gr. gh^rys voice. Not akin to cure. Cf. Chary.]1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude. Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. --Shak. 2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. The care of all the churches. --2 Cor. xi. 28. Him thy care must be to find. --Milton. Perplexed with a thousand cares. --Shak. 3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care. I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. --Shak. 4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety. Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares. --Spenser. Syn: Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- Care, Anxiety, Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude expresses the same feeling in a diminished degree. Concern is opposed to indifference, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, anxious to avoid an evil.
Con*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concerned; p. pr. & vb. n. Concerning.] [F. concerner, LL. concernere to regard, concern, fr. L. concernere to mix or mingle together, as in a sieve for separating; con- + cernere to separate, sift, distinguish by the senses, and especially by the eyes, to perceive, see. See Certain.]1. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. --Acts xxviii. 31. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. --Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. --Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. --J. F. Cooper. 2. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor. --Rogers.
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