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CONCURRED

Definition: CONCURRED

CONCURRED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Concur

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CONCURRED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)


Crosswords: CONCURRED

Specialty definitions using "CONCURRED": HATCHETLines. (references)
Etymologies containing "CONCURRED": Concur. (references)

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Historic Usage: CONCURRED

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

Further, in all matters, the execution of which is entrusted,to these twenty five barons, if perchance these twenty five are present and disagree about anything, or if some of them, after being summoned, are unwilling or unable to be present, that which the majority of those present ordain or command shall be held as fixed and established, exactly as if the whole twenty five had concurred in this; and the said twenty five shall swear that they will faithfully observe all that is aforesaid, and cause it to be observed with all their might. (reference)

John Locke

1690

The short of the case in conquest is this: the conqueror, if he have a just cause, has a despotical right over the persons of all, that actually aided, and concurred in the war against him, and a right to make up his damage and cost out of their labour and estates, so he injure not the right of any other. (Second Treatise of Government)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Any Member of the League which has violated any covenant of the League may be declared to be no longer a Member of the League by a vote of the Council concurred in by the Representatives of all the other Members of the League represented thereon. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CONCURRED

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

U.S. companies repeatedly stressed the need for the U.S. government to continue to apply government-to-government pressure to ensure fair and transparent tendering processes Businessmen interviewed for this study concurred that this is a serious problem, although they disagreed about the degree of seriousness. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

In December 1994, it concurred with the GCC decision to drop secondary and tertiary boycotts against Israel. (references)

Madagascar

The boards of the IMF and of the World Bank concurred in December 2000 that the country is eligible under the HIPC Initiative, and Madagascar has reached the decision point for debt relief. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

The family insisted on an autopsy, which was performed in the presence of a team of physicians, including two whom did not work for the PA. The team reportedly concurred with the initial PA assessment of suicide. (references)

Political Rights

Morocco

The Election Commission concurred that irregularities had occurred in two Casablanca cases and recommended that new elections be held in those districts. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

HATCHET, n. A young axe, known among Indians as a Thomashawk. "O bury the hatchet, irascible Red, For peace is a blessing," the White Man said. The Savage concurred, and that weapon interred, With imposing rites, in the White Man's head. John Lukkus

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CONCURRED

"CONCURRED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 82.19% of the time. "CONCURRED" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)82.19%6043,597
Lexical Verb (past participle)16.44%12101,599
Noun (proper)1.37%1339,140
                    Total100.00%73N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CONCURRED

Language Translations for "CONCURRED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

同意 (Accede, Acceded, Acceding, Agree, Agreed, Agreeing, Assent, Assented, Assenting, Concur, Concurring, Consent, Consented, Consenting). (various references)

   

French

  

proposer l'adoption d'un rapport en séance générale (move concurrence in a report/to, move that a report be concurred in/to). (various references)

   

German

  

traf zusammen (coincided). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

일치하" (Accorded, Coincident, matched). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oncurredcay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CONCURRED

Derivations

Words ending with "CONCURRED": nonconcurred. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CONCURRED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonacure, celcured, Cloncurry, concure, concurve, consured. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CONCURRED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CONCURRED" (pronounced kunker"d)
4-n k er" dincurred.
3-k er" dcurd, occurred, recurred.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CONCURRED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-n-o-r-r-u"

-1 letter: conducer, occurred.

-2 letters: conduce, crunode, reoccur, rondure, rounder.

-3 letters: concur, corder, corned, corner, cruder, curred, dourer, droner, enduro, ordure, record, undoer.

-4 letters: codec, coden, coder, coned, cored, corer, cornu, coude, credo, crone, crore, crude, cruor, cured, curer, decor, douce, drone, dunce, duroc, nuder, occur, order, ounce, recon, recur, redon, rerun, rouen, round, ruder, under.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-n-o-r-r-u"
 

+2 letters: uncorrected.

 

+3 letters: nonconcurred.

 

+4 letters: deconstructor, reconstructed.

 

+5 letters: countercharged, countermarched, deconstructors, preconstructed, superconductor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Historic
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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