Definition of "concern"

concern

/kənˈsɝn/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural concerns
1. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
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  We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
  Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier’s team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.
  2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
2. The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
3. A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
4. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
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  Appleby […] rose from his seat when Morales came in. He shook hands urbanely, unbuckled his sword, and laid his kepi on the table, and then sat down with an expression of concern in his olive face which Appleby fancied was assumed.
  1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict‎
5. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
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  Then I remembered there was a big concern, a Company for trade on that river.
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 198
  Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern, Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC’s insistence on editorial independence.
  2001 November 18, Fouad Ajami, “What the Muslim World Is Watching”, in The New York Times‎, retrieved 26 July 2014
6. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
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  At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.
  2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148
verb
third-person singular simple present concerns, present participle concerning, simple past and past participle concerned
1. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
  Quotations
  Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Acts xxviii:31
  our wars with France have always affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those we have had with any other nation
  1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
  ignorant, so far as the usual instruction was concerned
  1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy
  As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company
2. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
  Quotations
  They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
  a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended
  It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
  1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
3. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

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