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Definition: Concern |
ConcernNoun1. 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". 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". 4. Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry". 5. A feeling of sympathy for someone or something; "She felt strong concern for those less fortunate". Verb1. Be about; have to do with; be relevant to; refer, pertain, or relate to; "What's this novel all about?"; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk". 2. Be on the mind of; "What is worrying you?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "concern" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Concern \Con*cern"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Concerned; Concerning.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Economics | Affiliation of legally independent companies in an economic unit under common management by means of financial participation. Undertaken as a rule in order to strengthen market positions in the face of strong competition. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ConcernSynonyms: business (n), business concern (n), business organization (n), care (n), fear (n), headache (n), vexation (n), bear on (v), come to (v), interest (v), occupy (v), pertain (v), refer (v), relate (v), touch (v), touch on (v), worry (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unconcern (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Business | Verb: pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business; Noun: undertake; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with; (do). |
Noun: business, occupation, employment; pursuit; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case. | |
Disagreement | Verb: disagree; clash, jar; (discord); interfere, intrude, come amiss; not concern; mismatch; humano capiti cervicem jungere equinam. |
Discontent | Inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear. |
Eventuality | Business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion). |
Fear | Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair. |
Importance | Import, significance, concern; emphasis, interest. |
Irrelation | Verb: have no relation to; have no bearing upon, have no concern with; , have no business with; not concern; have no business there, have nothing to do with, |
Merchant | Concern; firm; (partnership). |
Pain | Concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief. |
Party | Corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine, trust. |
Relation | Verb: be related; Adjective: have a relation; Noun: relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to, belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest. |
Noun: relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern,. cognation; correlation; analogy; similarity; affinity, homology, alliance, homogeneity, association; approximation; (nearness); filiation; (consanguinity); interest; relevancy; dependency, relationship, relative position. | |
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Screenplays | This is our concern, Dude. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. (The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan) Why does that concern you? (The Guns of Navarone; writing credit: Alistair MacLean; Carl Foreman) This has been brought to you by Matsamura Fishworks and Tamarabuchi Energy Concern. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. (The Phantom Tollbooth; writing credit: Chuck Jones; Norton Juster) | |
Lyrics | I have but one concern, and that one concern is you (Sittin' Up In My Room (OST Version); performing artist: Brandy) What happens out there is not my concern (Music; performing artist: Erick Sermon) To Whom It May Concern, (I Hope You Dance; performing artist: LEE AN WOMACK) As far as I was concern, you were one of my boys (Girl Next Door; performing artist: Musiq Soulchild) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cause for Concern (1974) Of Public Concern (1968) The Deep Concern (1979) | |
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![]() | A view from the southeastern part of the restoration area where erosion was a concern. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Figure 24. Vereinigte Fabriken fur Laboratoriumsbedarf thermometer, manufactured by the firm of the same name. Vereinigte Fabriken fur Laboratorium sbedarf was a manufacturing concern that made all sorts of instruments for laboratories and researchers. This type of thermometer was made in 1910 after the design of the Richter thermometer. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Improper disposal of dead chickens on a southwestern Missouri poultry farm poses a water quality concern. Credit: Charlie Rahm. | Iceberg Point on Lopez Island in San Juan County, Washington: Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Credit: Neal Hedges. | |
Point Colville on Lopez Island in San Juan County, Washington: Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Credit: Neal Hedges. | ![]() | A Going Concern. : Beecham's Pills. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | |
![]() | They've got the respectability of a big solid concern to wrap themselves and their rottenness in --. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | I'm here, she announced timidly, to whom it might concern. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | To whom it may concern. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Viewing with concern. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn | The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. |
Alexander The Great | In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. |
Author Unknown | Love is ultimate concern. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us. |
Gustave Flaubert | Concern with morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid. |
Pythagoras | Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. |
Rosa Parks | My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work. |
Victor Hugo | For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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John Locke | 1690 | There is a common distinction of an express and a tacit consent, which will concern our present case. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In this connection, the special necessities of the regions devastated during the war of 1914-1918 shall be borne in mind; (f) will endeavour to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | It was a concern which brought just employment enough. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | On the transfer of the archives to Halifax, this package, proving to be of no public concern, was left behind, and had remained ever since unopened. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It does not concern me. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I walked to the city without any concern, being clad like one of the natives, and sufficiently instructed to converse with them. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Widespread concern among the public ensued. (references) | |
Hair loss is a major concern for many people with cancer. (references) | ||
Fruits and vegetables consumed raw are a particular concern. (references) | ||
Business | Privacy is a big concern. (references) | |
This is a general health concern of Singaporeans. (references) | ||
In a global environment, this is a growing concern. (references) | ||
Children | Botswana | The problem of sexual harassment of students by teachers is a national concern. (references) |
Brazil | She specifically expressed concern about the kidnaping of street children for adoption and sexual abuse. (references) | |
Tonga | Child abuse is rare and has not become a source of concern in a society in which the extended family participates in child rearing. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | South Africa | Some journalists express concern that the Government would like to control the media. (references) |
Korea | The food crisis apparently has heightened government concern about antiregime activity. (references) | |
Haiti | Reporters Without Borders wrote a letter to the Ministry of Justice to express its concern. (references) | |
Economic History | Dominican Rep | There are, however, areas of concern. (references) |
France | Financing is also of special concern. (references) | |
France | Unemployment continues to be a major concern in France. (references) | |
Human Rights | Thailand | Sleeping accommodations and access to medical care remain areas of concern. (references) |
Chile | Overcrowding in prisons continues to be a focus of concern within the Government. (references) | |
Brazil | Torture and mistreatment of prisoners by prison officials also was a serious concern. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | Aboriginal groups continue to express concern that the amended act limits the future ability of Aboriginal people to protect their property rights. (references) |
New Zealand | Maori officials continued to express concern over the Government's announcement in November 2000 that it would shift its Closing the Gaps strategy to address socioeconomic disparities rather than race-based disparities. (references) | |
Malaysia | In November an NGO working on behalf of indigenous people in the state of Sarawak expressed deep concern over the passage of the state assembly's Land Surveyors Bill, which requires land surveys to be carried out exclusively by state-licensed land surveyors. (references) | |
Minorities | Netherlands | Many complaints concern discrimination in the workplace. (references) |
Romania | President Iliescu and other prominent figures expressed concern about this act of vandalism. (references) | |
Australia | Public opinion surveys have indicated concern with the numbers of immigrants arriving in the country. (references) | |
Political Economy | BRAZIL | The balance of payments has also emerged as a concern. (references) |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | Enforcement of IPR laws remains a concern under the new act. (references) | |
UNITED KINGDOM | However, relatively low manufacturing labor productivity remains a concern. (references) | |
Political Rights | Malaysia | The anonymity of balloting also is a potential concern. (references) |
Malaysia | Postal votes (absentee ballots) by police and military personnel and their spouses also are a concern. (references) | |
Antigua and Barbuda | In 1992 public concern over corruption in government led to the merger of three opposition political parties into the UPP. (references) | |
Trade | Saudi Arabia | Delayed Payments: This can be an important concern for affected U.S. companies. (references) |
Russia | U.S. firms in Russia point to standardization and certification as an area of concern. (references) | |
Israel | Israel's main export market for food is Europe where consumer concern over GMO is considerable. (references) | |
Travel | Latvia | Street crime is a concern, particularly for tourists. (references) |
Nigeria | Air accidents in recent years have increased concern about maintenance standards on domestic airlines. (references) | |
Georgia | One of the greatest risks is from traffic accidents, although petty theft and muggings are also a concern. (references) | |
Women | China | Sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS is a growing concern. (references) |
Iceland | Violence against women continued to be a matter of concern. (references) | |
Kyrgyz Republic | Women's groups expressed particular concern about the situation of rural women. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Portugal | Poor environmental controls in textile production also cause considerable concern. (references) |
Cape Verde | The country is a transit point for traffickers, and trafficking has become a concern for local authorities. (references) | |
Papua New Guinea | Nevertheless there is concern that the country may be used as a route for the trafficking of illegal immigrants to Australia. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the western wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: "Plenty well, no pray; big bellyache, heap God." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Barker | I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals. But I'll tell you, I hadn't been a vegetarian long before I realized I could understand why people have become vegetarians for health reasons. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Among the objects of great national concern I can not omit to press again upon your attention that part of the Constitution which regulates the election of President and Vice-President. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | This is a problem which is the concern not only of management, labor, and the Government, but also the concern of every one of us. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Our balance of payments On one special problem, of great concern to our friends, and to us, I am proud to give the Congress an encouraging report. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Yet, it is not merely our concern but the concern of all free men. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Increasing health costs are of deep concern to all and a powerful force pushing up the cost of living. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Nuclear safety will remain a vital concern in the years ahead. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Next month I will be traveling to Mexico where trade matters will be of foremost concern. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | America, at its best, matches a commitment to principle with a concern for civility. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Concern" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.76% of the time. "Concern" is used about 8,961 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.76% | 8,043 | 1,199 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.71% | 511 | 11,859 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.7% | 332 | 15,754 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.76% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (common) | 0.08% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,961 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "concern": a going concern ♦ a paying concern ♦ as far as that concern ♦ banking concern ♦ be a paying concern ♦ be the concern of ♦ business concern ♦ concern oneself ♦ concern oneself with ♦ earthly concern ♦ express concern ♦ going concern ♦ have a concern in smth. ♦ have no concern with ♦ it does not concern me! ♦ it does not concern you ♦ it doesn't concern you ♦ it's no concern of yours ♦ large concern ♦ losing concern ♦ matter of concern ♦ not concern ♦ packaging concern ♦ primary concern ♦ printing concern ♦ show no concern for ♦ that is no concern of mine! ♦ that's his concern ♦ The whole concern ♦ there's no cause for concern ♦ this does not concern you! ♦ to whom it may concern ♦ with concern ♦ without concern ♦ worldly concern. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "concern": over-concern. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Afrikaans | belangrykheid, belang (account, advantage, benefit, gain, interest, profit), bekommernis (care), bekommering (care), aanbetref (relate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, break up, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), punë (affair, affairs, appointment, avocation, berth, business, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, make, making, metier, movement, occupation, office, operation, practice, question, service, shebang, slot, task, task-work, thing, work), problem (affair, business, issue, knot, problem, proposition, question), merakos (discompose, preoccupy, prepossess, trouble), merak (anxiety, care, carefulness, disturbance, pains, preoccupation, stew, unrest, worry), më përket (lie), më intereson, koncern, kam lidhje (communicate, correlate, refer), interesim (consideration, interest), çështje (affair, business, case, cause, count, issue, matter, point, problem, question, shebang, subject). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هم (care, matter, reck, solicitude, their, them, they, those, trouble, worry), قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), تكون له صلة, تورط (be embroiled, dip, embroilment, get into hot water, get involved, get stuck, involvement, mire, mix, set in motion), تعلق (affection, appertain, attach, become attached, cherish, cleave, crush, depend, fixation, hold of smth., pertain, respect, snag, stick by smb., touch, treasure), عناية (attendance, attention, care, custody, heed, interest, keeping, notice), القلق (restlessness, worry), إهتمام (attention, heed, interest, regard, solicitude, studiousness), أقلق (agitate, beset, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry), شأن (business, consequence, import, importance, interest, pigeon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отношение (attitude, bearing, contact, count, deal, dealing, feeling, play, posture, proportion, ratio, reference, regard, relation, relationship, respect, sentiment, stance, treatment), интерес (fascination, interest, mustard, punch, savor, savour, wonderment), преприятие, замесен съм, занимание (amusement, career, concernment, employment, exercise, game, job, occupation, ploy, prep, pursuit, way), занимавам се (busy, employ oneself, exercise, pursue, work), загриженост (solicitude, studiousness), дял (allocation, allotment, contingent, deal, dos, interest, lobe, parcel, part, partition, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, sector, segment, share, slice, snack, value, whack), отнасям се до (address, do with, have respect to), работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), важност (account, concernment, gravity, import, importance, interest, magnitude, materiality, moment, pith, pomposity, self-importance, seriousness, significance, solemnity, stress, value, weight), грижа (attention, care, custody, heed, keeping, look out, oversight, regard, solicitude, study, tendance, trouble, worriment, worrit, worry), грижа се (bother, care, care about, fend, provide, trouble), касая се за, концерн, част (detachment, division, fraction, interest, lap, leg, member, movement, outfit, parcel, part, partition, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rate, section, segment, share, slice, snack, unit), засягам (advert, affect, afflict, apply, bruise, effect, hit, hurt, import, offend, pique, refer, regard, tell, touch, treat of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 關照 (care, to keep an eye on, to look after), 眷 (consult with, to scheme, wife and children), 懮慮 (anxiety), 涉 (involve, to experience, wade), 关心 (Care, Cared, Caring, Concerned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | znepokojení (discomposure, uneasiness), zajímat (interest), záležitost (affair, business, matter, question, thing), zájem (interest), vìc (affair, business, case, cause, re, stuff, thing), týkat se (appertain, apply, bear, involve, pertain, regard, relate), starost (anxiety, care, charge, fash, lookout), podnik (business, company, enterprise, establishment, factory, firing, gala, joint, office, operation), koncern (combine), dotýkat se (affect, handle, touch, touch upon), úèast (attendance, compassion, interest, involvement, participation, turnout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sorg (care), koncern (group, group of companies), angå. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | belang (account, advantage, benefit, gain, importance, interest, profit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | zorgo (care), rilati (relate), koncerno, koncerni, graveco. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | nerva (obsess), koma við (launch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مربوطبودن به (Treat), اهمیت داشتن (Import), ربط (Contiguity, Correlation, Juncture, Paraphrase, Rapport, Relevance), بستگی (Bind, Dependence, Dependency, Kinship, Liaison, Vicinity), بابت (Behalf, Regard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suhtautua (be in a ratio of, be to, relate), konserni (group). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soin, regarder (consider), concerner, souci. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | oanbelangje (relate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | betreffen (affect, appertain, apply, bear upon, involve, pertain, regard, to affect, to concern, to pertain), besorgnis (anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, care, solicitude, unease, uneasiness, worry), sorge (alarm, anxiety, anxiousness, care, distress, problem, sorrow, trouble, worry), anlangen (arrive), angelegenheit (affair, business, business deal, case, issue, matter, pidgin), angehen (approach, ask, attack, combat, come at, come on, fight, go off, go on, start, start burning, strike, tackle, take off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανησυχία (anxiety, apprehension, concernment, dismay, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, nervousness, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לעסוק (attend, deal, engage in, practise, trade), ל""אי' (perturb, trouble, upset, worry), ל 'וע ב"בר (be interested), עסק (affair, business, deal, matter, relation, shebang, trade), ע ין (affair, business, case, context, interest, matter, shebang, stake, subject, thing), אכפתיות, אכפת, "תע י ות (attention, interest), "א'" (anxiety, care, fear, solicitude, worry), טר"" (bother, discomfort, distress, hassle, nuisance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vonatkozik (pertain, to apply, to concern, to refer, to regard), vonatkozás (aspect, bearing, reference, regard, relation, respect), törõdés (care), aggodalom (alarm, anguish, anxiety, care, disquietude, flutter, misgiving, misgivings, worry), érint (affect, dab, feel, felt, to affect, to concern, to feel, to graze, to mouth, to shave, to skim, touch, touch on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | perhatian (attention, heed, lime light), menyangkut (involve, relate to), mengacuhkan (care about, heed), kegelisahan (discomfort, disquiet, nerve, nervousness, perturbation, unrest, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riguardare (affect, apply, examine, look at, pertain, refer, regard, touch), concernere (about, apply, belong, concerning, regard), importanza (account, caliber, calibre, concernment, consequence, import, importance, magnitude, matter, moment, momentousness, prominence, prominency, significance, stature), cura (care, charge, cure, custody, handling, heed, notice, treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 配慮 (consideration, forethought), 顧慮 (consideration, solicitude), 懸念 (anxiety, fear, worry), 憂慮 (anxiety, fear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おそれ (anxiety, fear, horror, uneasiness), きがかり (anxiety, worry), きづかい (consideration, fear, solicitude, worry), し"ぱい (anxiety, care, worry), ね" (attention, care, desire, feeling, idea, sense, thought), つうよう (circulation, interest, popular use), か"し" (admiration, alarming, careful investigation, deplorable, favour, interest, reporting after careful investigation, retainer who dares to dissuade his lord, satisfaction, Well done!), か"ち (business, cold region, complete recovery, craft, craftiness, cunning, direct administration by the government, fallow ground, life of leisurely retirement, perception, quiet place, sinecure, undemanding job, vacant land, wiles), "りょ (consideration, solicitude), ろうばし", ゆうりょ (anxiety, fear), けね" (anxiety, fear, worry), じあ" (circumstance which is becoming a problem), はいりょ (consideration, forethought), とうがい (also-ran, applicability, appropriate, correlation, frost damage, non-winner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 관심. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | nhee (fact, item, matter, object, thing), imnea (anxiety, care, disquiet, nervousness, unease, worry), bentyn rish (affect, relative, tamper, touch, vis-a-vis, wash, wash of sea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | tin di aber ku (relate), importansia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oncerncay dotyczyć. (various references) interesse (absorption, behalf, concernment, interest, savor, savour). (various references) interesa (affect, commend, import, interest, involve). (various references) участие (do, immixture, involvement, partaking, participation, partnership, share), коснуться (touch), концерн, касаться (advert, adverts, be alluded to, concern to, have respect to, regard, touch, touch on, touch upon), вещь (article, object, pair, shebang, thing), относиться (appertain, pertain, regard), забота (attention, care, harassment, mothering, palaver, preoccupation, regard, tendance, thought, thoughtfullness, thoughtfulness), беспокоить (ail, distressing, disturb, fash, faze, feeze, fret, harass, incommode, inconvenience, perturb, plague, put about, trouble, vex), предприятие (businesses, contract, enterprise, job, proposition, undertaking), интересовать (cared, interest), интерес (interest, recede into the background, savor, savour). (various references) zabrinuti (distress, disturb, trouble, worry), ticati se (pertain, regard), preduzeće (enterprise, firm), interes (interest), briga (bother, botheration, care, trouble, worry), baviti se (deal in, engage in, go in for, have). (various references) cuidado (attention, care, carefulness, caution, fondling, keeping, nursing, painstaking, worry), preocupación (bother, care, conservation, perturbation, preoccupation, solicitude, trouble, worry), concernir (affect). (various references) sorgu (care, see, take care, worry). (various references) koncern, gälla (be available, be in the air, be valid, be worth, come to, count for, go, hold, obtain, pass, pass for), avse (design, designate, have in view, have reference to, intend, mean, regard), angelägenhet (affair, business, immediacy, matter), angå (pertain, respect). (various references) เกี่ยวข้องกับ (mix up in), เรื่องที่สำคัญกับบุคคลหนึ่ง, ทำให้กังวล (haunt), ความสัมพันธ์ (relationship, relativity), ความกังวล, มีความสัมพันธ์. (various references) ilgilendirmek (bear on, bear upon, interest), şey (affair, article, chose, doing, doings, doodad, doohickey, lark, matter, object, stuff, thing, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, well, whosit), şirket (company, corporation, establishment, firm, house), bağlantı (channel, commitment, communication, connecting, connection, connexion, contact, contact man, coordination, coupling, dealings, header, hookup, intercourse, liaison, link, linkage, linkup, noose, relation, tap, tie, tie in, tie up), bakim (care), endişe (agitation, angst, anxiety, apprehension, care, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, doubt, fear, fears, fret, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, qualm, scruple, solicitude, stew, suspense, uneasiness, worry), endişelendirmek (disquiet, distress, disturb, fret, keep in suspense, perturb, preoccupy, put the wind up smb., worry), etkilemek (affect, cast a spell on, catch up, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, reach, smite, spell, spellbind, sway, thrill, touch, turn, turn smb.'s head), alâka (attachment, bearing, connection, interest, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, respect), ilgi (affinity, attachment, attention, bearing, care, connection, connexion, curiosity, interest, involvement, liking, pertinence, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relativeness, relevance, relevancy, respect, solicitude, sympathies, sympathy, thought), tasa (care, mopes, sorrow), ilişkisi olmak (do with, have smth. to do with, interrelate, know, relate, tie in), irtibat (communication, connection, liaison), karışmak (amalgamate, be confused, be mixed up, blend, butt in, combine, commingle, commix, concern oneself, cut in, cut into, get mixed, have one's hand in, interfere, interfuse, interlace, intermeddle, intervene, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, meddle, meld, merge, mingle, mix, mix in, pick at, pick over, poke one's nose into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, slip in, step in, strike in, take up, tamper, thicken, thrust one's nose in, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in, welter, whirl), kaygılandırmak (cause anxiety, perturb), kuruluş (being set-up, body, enterprise, establishment, foundation, institute, institution, organ, promotional, set up, shop), merak (anxiety, avocation, bug, care, crotchet, curiosity, disquiet, disquietude, fad, fancy, hobby, interest, sensation, whim, wonderment, worry), pay (allocation, allotment, apportionment, cut, hand, interest, kickback, margin, moiety, numerator, part, portion, proportion, quanta, quantum, quota, share, shareout, slice, snack, take, toll, whack), iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works). (various references) degirmek (affect). (various references) стосуватися (belong, regard, respect), стосунок, інтерес (gusto, interest), цікавитися (care, pry, wonder), фірма (biz, firm), турбувати (afflict, ail, annoy, commove, derange, disoblige, embarrass, faze, gnaw, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, perturb, put about, work, worry), турбота (anxiety, bother, care, charge, inconvenience, preoccupation, solicitude, suspense, trouble, work, worry), концерн, відношення (appurtenance, bearing, ratio, regard, relation, respect), важливість (account, amount, consequence, earnest, gravity, import, importance, magnitude, moment, notability, pregnancy, seriousness, significance, significancy), зацікавленість, занепоко"ння (discomposure, fash, harass, harassment, qualm, restlessness, stew, uneasiness, worriment). (various references) chuyện phải lo sự lo lắng, cổ phần việc, xí nghiệp (factory, manufactory), sự quan tâm hãng buôn, sự lo ngại (discomposure, solicitude), sự lo âu (concernment, feeze, unrest), phần (part, percentage, portion), lợi lộc (gain, lucre), không quan tâm gì đến. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||