Dictionary Definition
concern
Noun
1 something that interests you because it is
important or affects you; "the safety of the ship is the captain's
concern"
2 an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they
hushed it up out of fear of public reaction" [syn: care, fear]
3 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" [syn: business, business
concern, business
organization, business
organisation]
4 something or someone that causes anxiety; a
source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern";
"it's a major worry" [syn: worry, headache, vexation]
5 a feeling of sympathy for someone or something;
"She felt strong concern for those less fortunate" [ant: unconcern]
Verb
1 have to do with or be relevant to; "There were
lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to
your earlier comments" [syn: refer, pertain, relate, come to, bear on, touch, touch on]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Etymology
From concernere.Noun
- That which affects one's welfare or happiness
- Mark's health was of great concern to Connie.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a
thing or person.
- He placed his hand on his sister's sunburnt legs with great concern.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- The employees' attitude is really hurting the concern.
Translations
that which affects one's welfare or happiness
- Danish: Bekymring
- Dutch: zorg, belangstelling
- Finnish: huoli, asia
- Hebrew: דאגה (de'aga) (2)
- Japanese: 注意事項 (ちゅういじこう, chūi jikō), 題目 (だいもく, daimoku), 心配事 (しんぱいごと, shinpai-goto)
- Portuguese: preocupação
- Romanian: preocupare, ingrijorare, retinere
business, firm or enterprise; a company
- Czech: koncern
- Dutch: aangelegenheid, onderneming
Verb
- To be of importance to.
- To make somebody worried.
Translations
to be of importance to
- Dutch: belang hechten aan, zich inlaten
- Finnish: koskea (+ partitive), liittyä (+ illative)
- Irish: bain do, bain le
- Portuguese: concernir
to make somebody worried
- Dutch: ongerust maken
- Finnish: huolestuttaa
- Hebrew: להדאיג (le'had'yg)
- Portuguese: preocupar
- ttbc Korean: ~에 관계가 있다.
- ttbc French: inquiétude f, préoccupation f, souci m
- ttbc Indonesian: perhatian, kecemasan
- ttbc Japanese: 関係する(かんけいする, kankeisuru)(1), 心配させる(しんぱいさせる, shinpaisaseru)(2)
- ttbc Romanian: a preocupa, a ingrijora
Extensive Definition
A concern is "a commercial or manufacturing
company or establishment: the headquarters of an insurance
concern."
- A concern in computer science is an abstract concept about program behavior Concern (computer science)
- Concern is the name of an Irish charity Concern (charity)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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,
angst, answer to, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria,
anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat,
anxiousness,
appertain to, applicability, application, applied
science, apply to, appositeness, apprehension, apprehensiveness,
area, arena, art, atelier, attention, attentiveness, attract, awareness, bag, barbershop, basis, be about, be the matter,
bear on, bear upon, bearing, beauty parlor, beauty
shop, belong to, bench,
beset, body corporate,
bother, burden, business, business
establishment, butcher shop, cankerworm of care, care, carefulness, caring, cartel, case, catch up in, cathexis, caution, chamber of commerce,
chapter, charge, chord, circumspection, circumspectness,
combine, commerce, commercial
enterprise, compagnie,
company, complaisance, complicate
matters, concernment, conglomerate, conglomerate
corporation, connect,
connection, consciousness, consequence, consequentiality,
considerateness,
consideration,
consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate
body, corporation,
correspond to, curiosity, deal with, delicacy, department of
knowledge, desk, discipline, discommode, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturb, disturbance, diversified
corporation, doing,
domain, doubt, draw in, dread, dubiety, duty, echo, embarrass, empathy, emphasis, employ, employment, engage, enmesh, entangle, enterprise, enthusiasm, essence, establishment, excellence, excite, excite interest, facility, faltering, fascinate, fear, fellow feeling, field, field of inquiry, field of
study, firm, focus of
attention, focus of interest, foreboding, forebodingness, forethought, frazzle, function, germaneness, gimmick, gist, give concern, gizmo, harass, have connection with,
head, heading, heed, heedfulness, helpfulness, high order,
high rank, holding company, house, identification, implicate, import, importance, incertitude, inconvenience, indulgence, industry, inquietude, installation, institution, interest, interestedness, invite, involve, involve in, involvement, irk, irresolution, issue, jigger, job, joint-stock association,
joint-stock company, labor, leniency, liaise with, link
with, living issue, loft,
lookout, loving care,
main point, malaise,
mark, materiality, matter, matter in hand, matter of
interest, meat, merit, mindfulness, misgiving, mistrust, moment, motif, motive, natural science, nervous
strain, nervous tension, nervousness, note, obligingness, occasions, occupation, ology, operating company, organization, outfit, overanxiety, palaver, paramountcy, parlor, partnership, passion, pathos, perplex, pertain to, pertinence, perturb, perturbation, pins and
needles, pique, plague, plunderbund, point, point at issue, point in
question, pool, pother, precedence, preeminence, preparedness, primacy, priority, problem, proceeding, province, provoke, public utility,
pucker, pure science, put
out, put to it, puzzle,
question, refer to,
reference, regard, regardfulness, relate to,
relatedness,
relating, relevance, respect, response, responsibility, responsiveness, rubric, science, self-importance,
service, sharing, shop, shtick, significance, skepticism, social science,
solicitousness,
solicitude, special
interest, specialty,
sphere, stew, stimulate, stock company,
strain, stress, studio, study, subject, subject matter, subject
of thought, substance,
suck into, superiority, supremacy, suspense, suspicion, sweatshop, sympathetic chord,
sympathetic response, sympathy, syndicate, tact, tactfulness, tangle, tantalize, task, technicology, technics, technology, tender loving
care, tension, text, theme, thing, thought, thoughtfulness, tickle, tie in with, titillate, toleration, topic, torment, touch, touch on, touch upon, trade
association, transaction, treat of,
trouble, trust, undertaking, unease, uneasiness, unquietness, unsettle, upset, utility, value, vex, vexation, vibes, vibrations, weight, widget, wonder, work, work site, work space,
workbench, workhouse, working space,
workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, worry, worth, zeal