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Definitions of concern:

noun: something that interests you because it is important or affects you
Example: "The safety of the ship is the captain's concern"
noun: something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
Example: "New York traffic is a constant concern"
noun: a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
Example: "She felt strong concern for those less fortunate"
noun: an anxious feeling
noun: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
Example: "A racially integrated business concern"
verb: be on the mind of
verb: have to do with or be relevant to

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to concern: (179 results)
Synonyms:
bear on, business, business concern, business organization, care, come to, fear, headache, interest, occupy, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on, vexation, worry

More general:
anxiety, enterprise, fellow feeling, involvement, negative stimulus, sympathy

More specific:
affair, affairs, affect, agency, brokerage, bugaboo, burden, business firm, carrier, center, center on, chain, common carrier, concentrate on, conglomerate, corp, corporation, dealership, earth, earthly concern, eastern cottontail, empire, encumbrance, firm, focus on, franchise, house, incumbrance, involve, load, maker, manufacturer, manufacturing business, matter, matter to, onus, part, partnership, personal business, point of honor, preoccupy, processor, regard, revolve about, revolve around, shipbuilder, softheartedness, solicitousness, solicitude, sylvilagus floridanus, tenderness, thing, world, worldly concern

Often used in the same context:
concerned, concerns

Appears in the definition of:
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