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concern - 7 dictionary results

con⋅cern

[kuhn-surn]
–verb (used with object)
1. 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


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.


6. indifference.
con·cern   (kən-sûrn')   
v.   con·cerned, con·cern·ing, con·cerns

v.   tr.
  1. To have to do with or relate to: an article that concerns the plight of homeless people.
  2. To be of interest or importance to: This problem concerns all of us.
  3. To engage the attention of; involve: We concerned ourselves with accomplishing the task at hand.
  4. 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.  
  1. A matter that relates to or affects one. See Synonyms at affair.
  2. Regard for or interest in someone or something.
  3. A troubled or anxious state of mind arising from solicitude or interest. See Synonyms at anxiety.
  4. A business establishment or enterprise; a firm.
  5. 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.]

Concern

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.

Concern

Con*cern"\, v. i. To be of importance. [Obs.]

Which to deny concerns more than avails. --Shak.

Concern

Con*cern"\, n. 1. That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.

The private concerns of fanilies. --Addison.

2. That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.

Mysterious secrets of a high concern. --Roscommon.

3. Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.

O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns And gentle wishes follow me to battle. --Addison.

4. (Com.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.

The whole concern, all connected with a particular affair or business.

Syn: Care; anxiety; solicitude; interest; regard; business; affair; matter; moment. See Care.
Language Translation for : concern
Spanish: concernir,
German: betreffen,
Japanese: ~にかかわる

concern 
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.
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