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Concern

Definition: Concern

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".

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".

Verb

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Concern

DomainDefinition

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)

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

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Synonyms: Concern

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Concern

ContextSynonyms 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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Concern

English words defined with "concern": with concern. (references)
Specialty definitions using "concern": Abandoned wells, aspect-oriented programmingCALIFORNIA ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, chemical technology, Chemigation, clerk, travel reservations, Clock, Collections management, Confidential Individual Information System, customs examiner, CUSTOMS IMPORT SPECIALISTdedicated channel, Dietary Guidelines for Americans, dip shooting, dispatcher, maintenanceEC type-examination certificate, Endocrine disruptor, ENSO, Environmental characterizationFood Stamp Programgene tranfer via viral vectors, GroundwaterHare, HeadINDIGESTIONKeep your Breath to Cool your PorridgeLANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR, Layers-over for Meddlers, leased line, Little Englanders, Low population zoneMartyr, Mind your Own Business, MycotoxinsNeedlestick Injuries, Nutrient Pollution, Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1991Pest resistance management plans, Prize Fighter, public-relations practitioner, PUBLIC-RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVEquantitationRadius of Vulnerability Zone, RATER, TRAVEL ACCOMMODATIONS, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, RESERVATION CLERK, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY, RING CONDUCTOR, Runs may ReadSCHEDULER, MAINTENANCE, screening level or screening level value, Secondary Effect, self-enumerating place, seriously ill, Small farm, SMOOTHED SUNSPOT NUMBER, Source AreaTable, Telegram, Tissue Inhibitor of-Metalloproteinase-3, travel clerkUse the Source Luke, UTSLVesicular stomatitis, Vulnerable ZoneWind erosion. (references)
Etymologies containing "concern": Unconcernment. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Concern" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (chain).

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Modern Usage: Concern

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Concern

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bubba Talks: Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Foreigners, Teenagers, Movies, Food, Football, and Other Matters That Occasionally Concern Human (reference)

  • Cause for Concern (reference)

  • Decision Making and the Will of God: 12 Session Study Guide Included (Classic Critical Concern) (reference)

  • From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice (reference)

  • Globalizing Concern for Women's Human Rights: The Failure of the American Model (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Concern

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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.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Concern

AuthorQuotation

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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Historic Usage: Concern

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Concern

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Concern

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Spoken Usage: Concern

SpeakerPhrase(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.

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

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Speeches: Concern

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809I 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

1829-1837Among 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

1945-1953This 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

1953-1961Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Our 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

1963-1969Yet, it is not merely our concern but the concern of all free men.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Increasing health costs are of deep concern to all and a powerful force pushing up the cost of living.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Nuclear safety will remain a vital concern in the years ahead.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Next month I will be traveling to Mexico where trade matters will be of foremost concern.

George W. Bush

2001-2005America, at its best, matches a commitment to principle with a concern for civility.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Concern

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)89.76%8,0431,199
Lexical Verb (infinitive)5.71%51111,859
Lexical Verb (base form)3.7%33215,754
Noun (proper)0.76%6840,606
Noun (common)0.08%7133,076
                    Total100.00%8,961N/A

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

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Expression: Concern

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.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "concern": over-concern.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Concern

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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52

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environmental concern

24

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7

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21

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7

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18

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7

concern police survivor

18

concern fitness woman

6

adoption based concern model

15

concern project

6

concern world

14

age concern germany holiday

6

concern frequency health radio

12

center concern

6

broker concern insurance

10

concern medical

6

concern nrc

10

concern poultry united

6

concern pak.org

10

concern letter

6

concern tva

10

concern international project

6

central city concern

9

concern fitness teen

6

concern sba

9

concern industrial

6

concern it lisa marie may presley whom

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alcohol concern

5

animal concern

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circle concern

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

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Modern Translation: Concern

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

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), (consult with, to scheme, wife and children), 懮慮 (anxiety), (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

   

Polish

  

dotyczyć. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

interesse (absorption, behalf, concernment, interest, savor, savour). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

interesa (affect, commend, import, interest, involve). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

cuidado (attention, care, carefulness, caution, fondling, keeping, nursing, painstaking, worry), preocupación (bother, care, conservation, perturbation, preoccupation, solicitude, trouble, worry), concernir (affect). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

sorgu (care, see, take care, worry). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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)

   

Thai

  

เกี่ยวข้องกับ (mix up in), เรื่องที่สำคัญกับบุคคลหนึ่ง, ทำให้กังวล (haunt), ความสัมพันธ์ (relationship, relativity), ความกังวล, มีความสัมพันธ์. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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), (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)

   

Turkmen 

  

degirmek (affect). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Concern