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concern

noun

1 concern

Something that interests you because it is important or affects you.

Roget 797: merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler, salesman; changer; regrater; shopkeeper, shopman; tradesman, tradespeople, tradesfolk.    ... show more

Roget 642: importance, consequence, moment, prominence, consideration, mark, materialness.    import, significance, concern; emphasis, interest.    greatness etc. ... show more

Roget 9: relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern, cognation; correlation etc. 12; analogy; similarity etc. 17; affinity, ... show more

Polish: sprawa, materia

2 concern

An anxious feeling.

synonyms: care, fear.

Roget 860: fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness etc. adj.; solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze [U.S.]; ... show more

Roget 832: discontent, discontentment; dissatisfaction; dissent etc. 489.    disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret etc. 833; repining, taking on ... show more

Roget 625: business, occupation, employment; pursuit etc. 622; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.    matter in hand, ... show more

Dutch: bezorgdheid, ongerustheid, verontrusting, zorg

3 concern

A feeling of sympathy for someone or something.

4 concern

Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness:
— New York traffic is a constant concern.

synonyms: headache, vexation, worry.

Roget 828: mental suffering, pain, dolor; suffering, sufferance; ache, smart etc. (physical pain) 378; passion.    displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, ... show more

Dutch: zich zorgen maken, bezorgd zijn, zorg
Polish: utrapienie, strapienie, frasunek, troska, zmartwienie, zgryzota

5 concern

A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it:
— A racially integrated business concern.

synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization.

Roget 151: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; ... show more

Dutch: bedrijf
Polish: koncern

verb

1 concern

Be relevant to.

synonyms: bear on, come to, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on.

Roget 9: be related etc. adj.; have a relation etc. n.; relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; ... show more

Dutch: aankomen, behoren bij, betreffen, bewegen, gaan, gelden, handelen, raken, slaan, toebehoren ... show more

2 concern

Be on the mind of.

synonyms: interest, occupy, worry.


Moby thesaurus: Aktiengesellschaft, TLC, absorb, academic discipline, academic specialty, accent, accommodatingness, activities, activity, affair, affairs, affect, affect the interest, agency, agitate, agitation, agreeableness, ail, aktiebolag, all-overs ... show more.

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