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Concern   /kənsˈərn/   Listen
Concern

noun
1.
Something that interests you because it is important or affects you.
2.
An anxious feeling.  Synonyms: care, fear.  "They hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"
3.
A feeling of sympathy for someone or something.
4.
Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness.  Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry.  "It's a major worry"
5.
A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it.  Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization.  "A small mom-and-pop business" , "A racially integrated business concern"
verb
(past & past part. concerned; pres. part. concerning)
1.
Be relevant to.  Synonyms: bear on, come to, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on.  "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
2.
Be on the mind of.  Synonyms: interest, occupy, worry.



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"Concern" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Captain" now; and the loss of his suppleness at knee and elbow had turned his mind largely to politics, making him stiffly patriotic, and especially hot against all free-traders putting bad bargains to his wife, at the cost of the king and his revenue. If the bargain were a good one, that was no concern of his. ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... of 1818 the business affairs of the brothers became so irretrievably involved that Peter and Washington went through the humiliating experience of taking the bankrupt act. Washington's connection with the concern was little more than nominal, and he felt small anxiety for himself, and was eager to escape from an occupation which had taken all the elasticity out of his mind. But on account of his brothers, in this dismal ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... wishes, and interrupts the happiness of the favourite characters, we feel a sensible anxiety and concern. But where their sufferings proceed from the treachery, cruelty, or tyranny of an enemy, our breasts are affected with the liveliest resentment against the author of these calamities. It is here esteemed contrary to the rules of art to represent anything cool and indifferent. A distant friend, or ...
— An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals • David Hume
... and risk ut. And I think she's in the right. If you enter the world of commerce, you must be prepared for speculation. We looked over the advertisements in a newspaper, just to get an idea, and we calculated the concern could be set afloat for seventy-five pounds. Out of that we could pay a quarter's rent, and stock the shop. Sally's been behind the counter a good bit of late, and she's getting an insight into that kind of thing. Wonderful ...
— The Unclassed • George Gissing
... conclusion referred to above by Professor Sidgwick. With exclusively physical phenomena Mr. Gurney did not much concern himself. ...
— Psychic Phenomena - A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed - in Psychical Research • Edward T. Bennett


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