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Definition: Concur |
ConcurVerb1. Be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those you say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point". 2. Happen simultaneously; "The two events coincided". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "concur" was first used: 1410. (references) |
Note: Concur \Con*cur"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Concurred; present participle verb or noun Concurring.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CONCUR ["CONCUR, A Language for Continuous Concurrent Processes", R.M. Salter et al, Comp Langs 5(3):163-189 (1981)]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CONCUR | English | Concurrent Design and Engineering in Building and Civil Engineering | N/A |
| CONCUR 2 | English | Calculi and Algebras of Concurrency:Extensions,Tools and Applications | Computing, European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ConcurSynonyms: agree (v), coincide (v), concord (v), hold (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disagree (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to. |
Concurrence | Verb: concur, conduce, conspire, contribute; agree, unite; hang together, pull together, join forces, make common cause. |
Convergence | Verb: converge, concur, come together, unite, meet, fall in with; close with, close in upon; center round, center in; enter in; pour in. |
Cooperation | Verb: cooperate, concur; coact, synergize. |
Synchronism | Verb: coexist, concur, accompany, go hand in hand, keep pace with; synchronize. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Concur |
| English words defined with "concur": Comprobate, Concurred, Condog ♦ Nonconcur, Nonconcurrence ♦ overlap ♦ To fall in with, To make with, To say amen to. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "concur": Lemonade. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "concur": Current. (references) |
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Screenplays | Lazar? Hmm, possible Yes! I concur. (The Man with the Golden Gun; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These parts of the guidelines concur with the recommendation by a 1991 National Institutes of Health workshop that chronic fatigue cases preceded by some, but not all, psychiatric syndromes can be classified as the chronic fatigue syndrome. (references) | |
The Navajo Indians, a number of whom contracted HPS during the 1993 outbreak, recognize a similar disease in their medical traditions, and actually associate its occurrence with mice. As strikingly, Navajo medical beliefs concur with public health recommendations for preventing the disease. (references) | ||
Business | As a result, a market for e-business services and e-commerce applications is rapidly developing and all trade sources concur that it will boom in the next two years. (references) | |
NCCI is owned by a number of parastatal organizations including the Public Investment Fund at 50 percent, the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) at 25 percent, and the balance is owned by the Retirement Pension Fund. Industry sources concur that NCCI dominates the Saudi health care insurance market, accounting for 30 percent of that market through its "TAJ" health care program. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | In the decision-making committee, the technical representative (typically an engineer) must concur in the award decision. (references) |
Germany | The necessity for the Bundesrat to concur on legislation is limited to bills treating revenue shared by federal and state governments and those imposing responsibilities on the states. (references) | |
Italy | Electronic commerce applications have taken off and, although they are still in their early stages, all trade sources concur that they will experience exceptional growth in the next two years. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | Although there were new procedures announced in 2000 for ISA detention, which included amendments that senior police officials must concur with ISA detentions, by year's end the procedures were not implemented. (references) |
Singapore | The President may concur with the advisory board's recommendation that a detainee be released prior to the expiration of the detention order but is not obligated to do so. No one was detained under the ISA from 1989 through 1996. Two persons were detained in 1997, and four in 1998, all for alleged espionage. (references) | |
Political Rights | South Africa | The NCOP, created to give a greater voice to provincial interests, is required to approve legislation that involves shared national and provincial competencies according to a schedule in the Constitution and to concur on other legislation. (references) |
Trade | Kazakhstan | The Export Control Administration under the Ministry of Economy has responsibility for the issuance of export licenses; however, other relevant ministries concerned with the goods must also concur in the issuance. (references) |
Colombia | The measure was taken to avoid an exchange rate imbalance that could have resulted from an influx of US dollars from the $2 billion purchase by Spanish company ENDESA in September of that year of a subsidiary of the Bogota Energy Co. While some authorized analysts say that this was a first step towards the dollarization of the Colombian economy, most concur that it was a necessary step to avoid a sudden imbalance in the exchange rate. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ghana | All published studies and reports concur that the majority of child labor is engaged in the informal and agricultural sectors, which the inspectors do not monitor. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Should you concur in the provisions of arms and armed vessels recommended by the circumstances of the times, this surplus will furnish the means of doing so. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | I concur with him entirely in the view he has taken on the subject, and some months before the removal I urged upon the Department the propriety of taking that step. |
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| "Concur" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 64.42% of the time. "Concur" is used about 104 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 64.42% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 34.62% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Concur Technologies, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "concur": concur smb. in smth. ♦ concur with ♦ in concur with. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "concur": non-concur. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
concur | 109 |
concur technology | 25 |
concur expense | 9 |
central concur | 4 |
concur workplace | 3 |
command concur | 2 |
concur tech | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "concur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pajtohem (abide, accord, be reconciled, chime, coincide, comply, comport oneself, conform, cotton, do with, eat humble pie, fall in with, lump it, make friends, make it up, make one's peace with, make up, moderate, put up with, subscribe), jam i një mendjeje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تزامن (coincide, coincidence, concurrence, synchronization, synchronize), تعاون (club up, collaborate, collaboration, communion, conspire, cooperate, cooperation, cope, get together, joining, participate, pull together, team up, unite, work for smth.), إلتقى (converge, get together, meet, reunite), إتفق (agree, bargain, be through with, close, come to an agreement, compound, concert, fall in with, jibe, pact). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съгласувам се (agree, comport, coordinate), съгласявам се (accede to, acquiesce, agree, assent, buy, comply, consent, grant, jibe, say the word, see, yield), съвпадам (clash, dovetail, register, tally, work in), съответствувам (accord, agree, correspond, fit, match, parallel, piece on, quadrate), съдействувам (abet, aid, co operate, collaborate, conduce, help up, minister, play, promote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 同意 (Accede, Acceded, Acceding, Agree, Agreed, Agreeing, Assent, Assented, Assenting, Concurred, Concurring, Consent, Consented, Consenting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyskytnout se souèasnì, shodovat se (agree, coincide, comport, tally), sbíhat se (converge), probíhat souèasnì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | موافقت کردن (Accede, Acquiesce, Admit, Agree, Assent, Comply, Grant, Jibe, Obey, Okay), هم رای بودن , دمسازشدن (Sort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | convenir (coincide), concorder (coincide, conform, correspond), se collaborer, être d'accord (consent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | übereinstimmen (accord, agree, be congruent, coincide, come to an agreement, conform, correspond, harmonize, jibe, link together, link up, match, tally, to concur, to conform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συναίνω (accede, acquiesce, assent, consent), συντρέχω (subserve, succor, succour), συμβάλλω (conduce to, contribute, cooperate), συμπίπτω (coincide, overlap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megegyezik (accede, agree, clinch, come to an agreement, comport, compound, to accord, to agree, to covenant, to equal, to gibe, to parallel, to tally, to unite), egyetért (agree, at one, go along with, say the word, to accommodate, to agree, to chime in with, to chime together, to concur, to consort with, to gibe, to harmonize, to unite), egybeesik (overlap, to concur, to overlap, to register). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | setuju (acc, agree, aye, bargain, pro). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | contribuire (conduce, contribute), concorrere (compete, contribute, share in, take part in, to compete), concordare (accede, accord, agree, arrange, check, check out, coincide, conform, consent, make agree, reconcile, settle), essere d'accordo (agree, consent, sympathise, sympathize), accordarsi (agree, arrange, come to an agreement, hold with, match, Square). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 軌'一にする (to be the same, to concur, to have the same way of doing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き'いつにする (to be the same, to concur, to have the same way of doing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 일치하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taghyrt ry-cheilley, co-roie (concurrence), co-obbraghey (collaborate, collaboration, collusion, co-operate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | stemme overens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oncurcay cooperar (combine, co-operate), contribuir (add to, contribute, minister, pitch in, redound, subscribe), concorrer (apply for, compete, rival, tender), concordar (accede, accept, accord, adhere, agree, approbate, assent, assort, bring into agreement, chime, close, cohere, comply, consent, correspond, cotton, covenant, emboss, let, own, subscribe, yes), coincidir (agree, coincide, overlap). (various references) contribui (club, contribute, go far to, minister to, redound), colabora la, coincide (check, coincide, dovetail, tally), se produce simultan. (various references) совпадать (check with, coincide, contemporize, jump with, match). (various references) slagati se (accord, agree, approve, hit it off, jibe, match, string along, subscribe), podudarati se (coincide, tally). (various references) convenir (agree, answer, arrange, be appropriate, be fitting, be suitable, befit, do, fall in, suit), concurrir (come together, compete, forgather, meet), coincidir (agree, coincide). (various references) sammanträffa (coincide, meet), medverka (assist, co operate, contribute, cooperate, co-operate, take part), instämma (admit, assent, chime in, cite, go along, summon). (various references) uyuşmak (agree, align oneself with, become numb, click, dovetail, fall in with, get along, get along with, go to sleep, jibe, lull, mix, run in with, sort together, square with, suit, tone, understand each other), rastlamak (alight, alight on, blunder on, coincide, come across, come on, come upon, encounter, fall in with, fall on, fall with, find, hap, happen, light, light upon, meet, meet by chance, run across, run against, run up against smb., stumble across, stumble on, stumble upon), kesişmek (cross, cut, intersect), hemfikir olmak (agree, agree with, be of one mind), elbirliği yapmak, aynı anda olmak (synchronize). (various references) збігатися (coincide, consist, jibe, shrink), погоджуватися (accede, accept, admit, allow, comply, concede, consent, give in, grant, hold with, homologate), діяти спільно (cahoot, conspire). (various references) cyd-fynd (agree, go with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | concurrere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "concur": concurred, concurrence, concurrences, concurrencies, concurrency, concurrent, concurrently, concurrents, concurring, concurs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "concur": nonconcur. (additional references) | |
Words containing "concur": nonconcurred, nonconcurrence, nonconcurrences, nonconcurrent, nonconcurring, nonconcurs. (additional references) | |
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"Concur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonacure, cancor, cincus, Cloncore, Cloncurry, cocorp, concat, concer, concol, concom, concor, concour, concu, concure, concurr, concurve, condur, confu, confur, congur, conjur, conjux, connu, conqur, Conquy, consour, conur, Kontur, Monzur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "concur" (pronounced kunker") |
| 3 | -n k er" | incur. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: cornu, occur. | |
-2 letters: corn, croc, curn, unco. | |
-3 letters: con, cor, cur, nor, orc, our, roc, run, urn. | |
-4 letters: no, nu, on, or, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: concurs. | |
+2 letters: conducer. | |
+3 letters: cancerous, chancrous, concluder, concourse, concurred, conducers, conductor, construct, coruscant, councilor, crouching, nonchurch, nonconcur, occurrent, occurring, succoring, uncoerced, unconcern. | |
+4 letters: accoutring, buccinator, concluders, conclusory, concourses, concurrent, concurring, conductors, congruence, congruency, conjecture, constructs, cornucopia, corpulence, corpulency, councillor, councilors, counteract, countercry, cowpuncher, inculcator, nonaccrual, nonconcurs, occurrence, occurrents, succouring, uncoercive, unconcerns. | |
+5 letters: accoutering, backcountry, buccinators, cancerously, churchgoing, churchwoman, churchwomen, circulation, coculturing, coinsurance, concurrence, concurrency, concurrents, conductress, congruences, conjectural, conjectured, conjecturer, conjectures, conjuncture, constructed, constructor, contractual, contracture, coproducing, cornucopian, cornucopias, corpulences, coruscating, coruscation, cotransduce, councillors, counteracts, countercoup, cowpunchers, crucifixion, cupronickel, deconstruct, inculcators, macronuclei, micronuclei, noncircular, obscurantic, occurrences, pococurante, reconstruct, reoccupying, reoccurring, subcontract, ulcerogenic, unconcerned, uncorrected. | |
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