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concern English

Meaning concern meaning

What does concern mean?
Definitions in simple English

concern Noun

— A concern is something that you think is a problem or needs attention. The government expressed its concern at the fighting in Kenya. Poor sales are causing concern among the owners. Our main concern now is to make sure that everyone is safe. There is widespread concern about the approaching storm. He concern for her children is understandable, given the lack of information. The changes at the school were quite clearly a matter of great interest and concern among students. — Concern is a feeling that you want to help somebody. Her look of concern made him feel better. — A concern is a business. XYZ Company is an ongoing concern, and we have no plans to shut it down.

concern Verb

— If mathx/math concerns mathy/math, mathx/math is about mathy/math. We have received a letter that concerns the recent sale of the property. The article is primarily concerned with Dylan's early life. — If something concerns you, you think it is a problem or needs attention. The recent losses certainly concern me, but I still think things are looking good. — You use to whom it may concern at the beginning of a letter when you don't know the name of the person you're writing to.

concern

— verb (= refer, pertain) be relevant to There were lots of questions referring to her talk My remark pertained to your earlier comments — verb (= worry) be on the mind of I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift — noun something that interests you because it is important or affects you the safety of the ship is the captain's concern — noun (= care, fear) an anxious feeling care had aged him they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction — noun a feeling of sympathy for someone or something She felt strong concern for those less fortunate — noun (= worry) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness New York traffic is a constant concern it's a major worry — noun (= business, business concern) 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

Synonyms concern synonyms

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concern English » English

worry anxiety care interest business involve fear regard matter firm affair relate disturb connection pertain alarm uneasiness affect trouble solicitude worries bother relate to refer look at consider company watch view touch see restlessness establishment disquiet deem case apprehension touch on thing misgiving enterprise distress corporation consideration attention agitation affairs thought relationship relation

Topics concern topics

What do people use concern to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried
Language and thought Think Mind

Think about
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Be about, subject
Social behavior Behavior

Love
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Indifferent
Language and thought Think Learn

Study
Social behavior Behavior Love

Not care

Conjugation concern conjugation

How do you conjugate concern?

concern · verb

Examples concern examples

How do I use concern in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This doesn't concern you.
It doesn't concern you.
That doesn't concern us.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Housing is a big concern.
It doesn't concern anybody apart from me and my family.
Excessive concern with safety can be dangerous.
That's my sole concern.
As regards the expense involved, it is of no concern to me.
Granting that it is true, it does not concern me.
The question doesn't concern me.
Thank you for your concern.
This does not concern you at all.
Reducing the budget deficit is a major concern of the government.
My primary concern is your safety.
Don't interfere with matters that do not concern you!
Many industrialists have expressed their concern about the economy.
I appreciate your concern.
The matter does not concern me.
The impact of Emmet's theory on physics has been widely discussed, but this is not my concern in this paper.
Her behavior is my primary concern.

Movie subtitles

He seems to have a really big concern..
Peter, that is the concern of the police.
Any concern, in this situation, should be reserved for others.
The explosion is of no concern, Mr Helius - it's nothing but a small accentuation of my offers.
I can quite understand Mr. Harker's concern.
I don't see how that trash can possibly concern me.
Because I begin to get goofy ideas and they concern you, Anne.
None of your ideas could be goofy, Stewart, if they concern me.
That is not your concern!
Most respected Court, as my forespeaker clearly hinted, this seems to concern my imprisonment.
Before I get through, I'm laying before you here. the last general statement of the concern.
Young man, you needn't concern yourself about me.
My first concern is to locate the lucky man.
Furthermore, tell the second assistant that Doctor Galen's examination and treatment methods are none of his concern.
Here's a Dutch physicist and a Lebanese bureaucrat and the CEO of a major grocery concern.
I know, but you should throw me out, because I begin to get goofy ideas, and they concern you, Anne.
In what way does this concern me?
Your sympathy, your concern. all pretense, underneath which you resent me.
The girl is my concern, not yours.
Miss Wickfield, Mr. Wickfield, and others whom it may concern!
My concern is to locate the lucky man.
It's no concern of mine, but I overheard you when you discussed it.
Concern?
The matter does not concern you, Mrs Greifer.
However, these expenses of yours did concern us. in so far as the money might have come out of our till.
It ain't nothing to concern us.
Today we are not going to concern ourselves with chemical equations. Geographical questions or matters of historical import.
What are you raving about? I am asking you, sir. For a third interest in this thriving concern.
Look here, young man, you needn't concern yourself about me.
That's not our concern.
Thanks for your tears of concern.
The agency says you last worked for a publishing concern.
Oh, it was also of concern to me to clarify the relationship between Teruo and me.

News and current affairs

The feature of the proposed pact that elicits the most excitement - its focus on regulatory barriers like mandatory product standards - should actually incite the greatest concern.
Israel's main concern continues to be security.
The Internet's creators, part of a small, enclosed community, were very comfortable with an open system in which security was not a primary concern.
The most promising areas for international cooperation today most likely concern problems posed for states by third parties such as criminals and terrorists.
What should be of greater concern is the potential plight of countries in the last group.
Three problems are of immediate concern, the most important being feeding the Afghan people - both within the country and in refugee camps outside Afghanistan.
Syria is a special concern.
The Antarctic Treaty System includes three annual meetings: one deals with the supervision and management of the Treaty itself, and the other two concern the CCAMLR and the PEP.
Development will take a long time, and the international community needs to explore better ways to make sure that help actually reaches the poor, but both prudence and a concern for soft power suggest that the US should take the lead.
But some express concern that the new Europe will be defined in opposition to the US.
Of the harm that inequality inflicts on our economies, politics, and societies, the damage done to children demands special concern.
An even bigger question mark hovers over what might be the greatest national security concern of all: the federal budget deficit.
Spreading democracy was not the main concern; stopping communism - in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas - was.
As the emotions in Washington today suggest, the aversion to tax increases runs far deeper than concern about their effect on current economic performance and job growth.
There has been much concern about financial contagion between Europe and America.
The long history of Africa's exploitation demands that this concern not be dismissed out of hand.
Yet there is a real concern that the extremists, who are politically well organized, are seeking to gain control by the ballot over less-organized liberals, thus preventing peace and stability.
In the past, concern for the environment was viewed as a luxury; today, it is a necessity - a point grasped by some, but by no means all, economic architects yet.
For the last four years, the LDP had shown itself to be utterly unresponsive to the key issues of popular concern: pensions, unemployment, and the fraying social safety net.
Concern about the paradox all but vanished.
TEL AVIV - Israel's concern about the specter of a nuclear Iran has now degenerated into a crisis of confidence concerning the United States.

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