| NOUN | cognition | concern | something that interests you because it is important or affects you |
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| feeling | concern, care, fear | an anxious feeling | |
| feeling | concern | a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | |
| cognition | concern, worry, headache, vexation | something or someone that causes anxiety | |
| group | concern, business, business concern, business organization, business organisation | a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | |
| VERB | stative | concern, refer, pertain, relate, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with | be relevant to |
| stative | concern, interest, occupy, worry | be on the mind of |
| Sounds | kahnser'n | |
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| Rhymes | adjourn ... yearn: 61 rhymes with ern... | |
| Meaning | Something that interests you because it is important or affects you. | |
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| Example | "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern" | |
| Narrower | matter, affair, thing | A vaguely specified concern |
| part | That which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation | |
| personal business, personal matters, affairs | Matters of personal concern | |
| point of honor | A concern that seriously reflects on your honor | |
| worldly concern, earthly concern, world, earth | The concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | |
| Broader | interest, involvement | A sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something |
| Catalan | inquietud, preocupació | |
| Spanish | inquietud, preocupación | |
| Meaning | An anxious feeling. | |
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| Synonyms | care, fear | |
| Broader | anxiety | A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune |
| Catalan | inquietud, por, preocupació, temor | |
| Spanish | inquietud, miedo, preocupación, temor | |
| Verbs | concern | be on the mind of |
| Meaning | A feeling of sympathy for someone or something. | |
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| Example | "She felt strong concern for those less fortunate" | |
| Narrower | softheartedness, tenderness | A feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) |
| solicitude, solicitousness | A feeling of excessive concern | |
| Broader | sympathy, fellow feeling | Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) |
| Opposite | unconcern | A feeling of lack of concern |
| Catalan | afecte | |
| Spanish | afecto | |
| Meaning | Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness. | |
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| Example | "New York traffic is a constant concern" | |
| Synonyms | worry, headache, vexation | |
| Narrower | bugaboo | A source of concern |
| burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus | An onerous or difficult concern | |
| business | A rightful concern or responsibility | |
| Broader | negative stimulus | A stimulus with undesirable consequences |
| Catalan | inquietud, preocupació | |
| Spanish | preocupación | |
| Verbs | concern | be on the mind of |
| Meaning | A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it. | |
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| Example | "a racially integrated business concern" | |
| Synonyms | business, business concern, business organization, business organisation | |
| Category of | shipping room | A room where goods are packaged and shipped |
| Category | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business | The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects |
| Members | division | An administrative unit in government or business |
| Narrower | agency | A business that serves other businesses |
| brokerage | The business of a broker | |
| carrier, common carrier | A person or firm in the business of transporting / transporting people or goods or messages | |
| chain | (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership | |
| firm, house, business firm | The members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments | |
| franchise, dealership | A business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | |
| manufacturer, maker, manufacturing business | A business engaged in manufacturing some product | |
| partnership | The members of a business venture created by contract | |
| processor | A business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market | |
| shipbuilder | A business that builds and repairs ships | |
| underperformer | A business that is less successful than expected | |
| Broader | enterprise | An organization created for business ventures |
| Catalan | negoci | |
| Spanish | negocio | |
| Meaning | Be relevant to. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | refer, pertain, relate, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with | |
| Narrower | apply, hold, go for | Be pertinent or relevant or applicable |
| focus on, center on, revolve around, revolve about, concentrate on, center | Center upon | |
| involve, affect, regard | Connect closely and often incriminatingly | |
| matter to, interest | Be of importance or consequence | |
| Similar to | allude, touch, advert | make a more or less disguised reference to |
| Catalan | concernir, pertocar, referir | |
| Spanish | atañer, concernir, referir | |
| Meaning | Be on the mind of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | The bad news will concern him | |
| Synonyms | interest, occupy, worry | |
| Spanish | interesar | |
| Nouns | concern | something or someone that causes anxiety |
| concern | an anxious feeling | |