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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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