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con⋅cern

  [kuhn-surn]
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–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

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.

Antonyms:
6. indifference.
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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.]
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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.
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Language Translation for : concern
Spanish: concernir,
German: betreffen,
Japanese: ～にかかわる
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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concern

see as far as that goes (is concerned); to whom it may concern.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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