Crossword clues for concern
concern
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concern
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a central concern
▪ Environmental problems are now a central concern.
a complaint concerns sth/relates to sth
▪ We have received a number of complaints concerning faulty goods.
a matter of concern (=something that concerns people)
▪ Safety standards in the industry have become a matter of concern.
a passionate concern for sth
▪ She developed a passionate concern for human rights.
an expression of concern
▪ His release from prison provoked expressions of concern from members of the public.
appreciate...concern
▪ I appreciate your concern, but honestly, I’m fine.
cause concern/alarm
▪ Environmental issues are causing widespread concern.
chief concern
▪ Safety is our chief concern.
environmental concerns
▪ Residents have raised some valid environmental concerns about the nuclear plant.
express concern (=say or show that you are worried)
▪ Financial analysts have expressed concern about the possibility of a recession.
genuine interest/concern/desire etc
▪ The reforms are motivated by a genuine concern for the disabled.
▪ a genuine fear of invasion
grave concern
▪ The report expressed grave concern over the technicians’ lack of training.
of particular interest/concern/importance etc
▪ Of particular concern is the rising cost of transportation.
sb’s worries/concerns about the future
▪ their worries about the future of the English countryside
share sb’s concern/enthusiasm etc (=feel the same concern, enthusiasm etc as someone else)
▪ I share the concern of parents about the content of some of these computer games.
the focus of concern (=the thing which people are worried about)
▪ The spread of the disease has become the main focus of concern.
the rules concerning/governing/relating to sthformal (= the rules about something)
▪ the rules governing food labeling
unduly worried/concerned/anxious etc
▪ She doesn’t seem unduly concerned about her exams.
voiced concern
▪ The senator voiced concern at how minorities and immigrants are treated in California.
worried/concerned/anxious etc lest ...
▪ He paused, afraid lest he say too much.
▪ She worried lest he should tell someone what had happened.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ Modules could then be directed at issues which teachers themselves see as of central concern.
▪ The individual was his central concern.
▪ The central concern for all these groups is with what they perceive to be declining moral standards.
▪ The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades.
▪ Readers will find a central concern about the factors that influence social welfare a characteristic of many writings on social policy.
▪ The subconscious having become a central concern of the age, a host of artists took the elemental self as their subject.
▪ But I believe it to be true that in many corners of Christendom spiritual warfare is no longer a central concern.
▪ For others, the central concern is the pursuit of audiences and the dilemmas that brings with it.
chief
▪ The prioress seemed to regard my master as her chief concern.
▪ Health care is probably the chief concern on the road.
▪ According to one such report Richard's chief concern in the autumn of 1178 was with his southern frontier.
▪ Dole, by contrast, did best among voters who listed the federal deficit as their chief concern.
▪ Their chief concern is that their status as skilled specialists should be recognised and respected.
▪ The liquidity problem remained the chief concern, said Saurabh Dani of Dani&038;.
▪ Last year, with her sisters now undergraduates, 17-year-old Clare was our chief concern.
▪ My own chief concern is with myth as a living whole.
deep
▪ Do you share your deep concerns?
▪ Furthermore, that overtone was of deep concern to all colonizing nations troubled about the issue of racial contact and race mixture.
▪ The Profitboss puts money into welfare, motivated by a deep and genuine concern for every single person in his team.
▪ Folks have said over and over they have deep concerns about health problems there.
▪ The result provoked deep concern within the Ulster Unionists, long riven with divisions.
▪ The Ambassador immediately received her and quickly understood her deep concern.
▪ The A66 has become a cause for deep concern among local residents following a spate of accidents in recent months.
▪ Reasons of that level can themselves be justified by reference to the deeper concerns on which they are based.
environmental
▪ These really are environmental concerns worth bothering about.
▪ In this case, the Court answered no, though the legislation was prompted by strong environmental concerns.
▪ The Body Shop, well known for its environmental concerns, increased its giving sevenfold to £240,000 between 1987 and 1990.
▪ The dumping of Kyoto and the new energy policy have similarly been clothed in soothing words of environmental concern.
▪ Its chairman, Helmut Sihler, said that environmental concerns would add tens of billions of dollars to industry's costs.
▪ They become entangled in national budgetary squabbles or bogged down with environmental concerns.
▪ Out of environmental concerns, the steel will be retrieved.
▪ As some observers noted, the new regulation establishes the principle that environmental concerns take precedence over commercial arguments.
genuine
▪ Beaverbrook had some genuine concern, and was less consistently anti-Baldwin.
▪ A former reporter said Forbes once talked with him for two hours, with seemingly genuine concern, about staff morale.
▪ It seemed that our genuine concerns and grievances were largely ignored and we were dismissed as being out of date and out of touch.
▪ He had shown, or so it had seemed to her at the time, genuine concern for others.
▪ Shon says, with genuine concern.
▪ His crews worshipped him and he responded by showing a genuine concern for their welfare.
▪ And his genuine concern and friendly approach soon won him lots of friends.
going
▪ The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
▪ It is only prepared to make that payment on the assumption that the Business is a going concern without too many problems.
▪ The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern.
▪ In January 1987 she went to live in Tenerife and on 8 May 1987 she sold the business as a going concern.
▪ The possibility that parts of the business could be sold off as a going concern should not be overlooked.
▪ If the going concern qualification's role is to signal the distribution of the likely cash flows, further questions arise.
▪ Personal liability on shares could occur whilst the company is still a going concern.
▪ In consequence, the message contained within a going concern qualification may merely confuse users of financial statements.
grave
▪ However, there was grave concern about the future of the avionic department there.
▪ As for Stewart, the family developed grave concerns about his health.
▪ The Parish Council have asked me to express their grave concern that such an incident could have occurred at all.
▪ The fact that the number of very young women now smoking and consuming alcohol has steadily increased gives grave cause for concern.
▪ It was none the less a moment of grave concern to unbelievers of any reliable militancy.
▪ There are grave concerns about the effect any cutbacks will have on local services.
▪ As I have said, we have expressed our grave concern.
great
▪ The seven malicious referrals were a cause of great concern, particularly given the amount of distress caused to the families investigated.
▪ Understandably, this can be a source of great concern to adults.
▪ He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern.
▪ Such vast advantages in costs and production are a source of great concern to Ford management.
▪ This latter point was perhaps the greatest concern for Britain's aviation planners as the war went on.
▪ But police argue that public safety is a greater concern.
▪ What is of greatest concern, though, is the impact of this exorbitant charge on personal safety.
▪ The incident has caused great concern among officers at Bullingdon.
growing
▪ One encouraging feature of period-instrument performances in recent decades has been a growing concern with reliable and authoritative editions.
▪ In recent years this has been brought into sharp focus with growing public concern for a healthier and safer environment.
▪ The move follows a growing number of concerns expressed by parents of dyslexic children who claim adequate schooling is not always offered.
▪ The Direction was issued in response to growing concern at the spread of large, out-of-town retail developments, some on greenfield sites.
▪ In yesterday's Independent, growing concern was reported about the integrity of official statistics.
▪ The survey was carried out against a background of growing concern as to the implications of climate change on sea level rise.
▪ Alan butcher's calf injury has been a matter of growing concern.
immediate
▪ My immediate concern on that first morning in Punta Arenas was to learn all I could about the ship.
▪ Of more immediate concern to them was the appalling reality that the nature and tempo of operations engendered.
▪ Your immediate concern is how to make yourself the candidate most likely to succeed!
▪ The more immediate concern, namely, self-preservation, had made friends and benefactors of their former enemies.
▪ Our more immediate concern in this section is with measurement as understood within variable analysis.
▪ As a result his writing becomes less concerned with immediate political concerns and he had more time for reading and research.
▪ My immediate concern is that the tone of your coverage was very negative, speculative, and highly opinionated.
▪ A more immediate concern is the danger that a monumental scientific advance could be commercialised.
main
▪ Male speaker Our main concern is about quality of care.
▪ My main concern is losing a job because of mistakes on my report.&038;.
▪ Our main concern is with the distribution of wealth and consumption.
▪ My main concern is for Mario and Clyde.
▪ But the main concern must be whether the selection process itself is effective.
▪ His main concern is his message.
▪ But my main concern is for you.
▪ The main area of concern in such a sociology of the unconscious lies in the analysis of social control.
major
▪ The question of the recently introduced Actively Seeking Work legislation was of major concern to everyone.
▪ Despite the enormous casualty figure, a major concern of governmental officials was that insurance cover property losses.
▪ Inflation had clearly supplanted economic growth as the major concern of government economic policy by the end of the period under review.
▪ One of their major concerns was the slump in wool prices.
▪ The other major concern of every caterer is cost-effectiveness.
▪ At a concrete level, fertility and the home are her major concerns.
particular
▪ My particular concern is the very ends of the fingers - or, the nails.
▪ One particular concern related to public transportation.
▪ One particular element of concern here is what is known as the foreclosure issue.
▪ Of particular concern to the industry is the company's agreement to more closely monitor gun distribution.
▪ At this important stage, we would like to draw attention to some particular concerns.
▪ In Austin, dependant care issues are a particular concern.
▪ The gault clay woodlands in mid-Kent are of particular concern.
political
▪ Looking at the administrative and financial arrangements more generally, the diminution of political concern is remarkable.
▪ If so, the principles of neutral political concern are at least primafacie valid.
▪ Beyond political and practical concerns, there lies a more subtle moral risk.
▪ While not solely triggered by political concerns, they all eventually focused on the need for reform and the lack of democratisation.
▪ This book addresses many of the political concerns of border people.
▪ Most certainly, Stanley Baldwin's first major political concern as Prime Minister was to tackle unemployment.
▪ Short-lived, spontaneous aggregations of people who share a political concern are identified by Almond as anomie interest groups.
primary
▪ They are not my primary concern in this paper.
▪ The primary concern is cost: Who will pay for constructing the Iway?
▪ Indeed, security is a primary concern of most users, but all free email services offer some form of security policy.
▪ The primary concern was with delinquency, the focus on moral character.
▪ Their wishes and feelings are, or should be, of primary concern.
▪ As always, security is a primary concern.
▪ A primary concern of building inspectors is fire safety.
▪ Their primary concern is with Washington, where the promotion board and higher officials are.
public
▪ And because the sentence had to reflect public concern.
▪ The subject never appears in polls reflecting major public concerns.
▪ In recent years this has been brought into sharp focus with growing public concern for a healthier and safer environment.
▪ Short of murder, whatever occurred between husband and wife was not considered by Locke to be of public concern.
▪ Holloway prison's C1 unit has for some time been the subject of public concern and outrage.
▪ Yet if you try to be public about your concerns and your interests, then that is equally criticized.
▪ One original assumption here was that legislators are more responsive to demands for expenditure than to public concern for tax levels.
▪ The decision had taken so long and polio had so retreated from public concern that it was all anticlimactic.
real
▪ The welfare and development of the population at large are not the real concerns of the governments or their rivals.
▪ Could there be a clearer omen that there is real concern?
▪ Now there has been real concern voiced about the delay in getting the unit off the ground.
▪ However, I have real concerns about the impact on our family if I terminate him.
▪ In fact, the second objective of the US-led intervention in the crisis has turned out be the real concern.
▪ My real concern, though, is who will defend the clones?
▪ Unless such a discussion in role is backed by real concern about the outcome, there will be no game.
▪ All this is really quite trivial compared to my real concern.
serious
▪ This must be a matter of serious concern for the Church.
▪ One has to wonder just how much serious dedication and concern there really is at the Herald.
▪ Detectives said she was known to be upset over personal problems and ex-pressed serious concern for her safety.
▪ A magazine about home and family apparently does not pose serious editorial concerns to the company.
▪ But just supposing yesterday's clarion call is the answer to the serious concerns which exist about reading standards in schools.
▪ They have returned, in more technical terms, to a serious concern with ontology.
▪ Rural depopulation is a matter of serious concern.
▪ It's a serious concern for farmers.
social
▪ Censorship reflects the social concerns and even fears of society and government at the time.
▪ Throughout these three arguments is the same social concern noted in the previous cluster.
▪ Pollution Care of the natural environment remains a matter of great social concern.
▪ In the crisis social welfare concerns were made superfluous, as even the preservation of employment was in doubt.
▪ They accept the goal of an enterprise economy, but want it tempered by social concerns, with a place for worker-ownership.
▪ Throughout these three arguments the social concern of the apostle has been uppermost.
▪ Some of these issues set off fewer alarm bells today and perhaps for most of us they are of less social concern.
▪ In terms of young people, two major social concerns served to invite the psychiatric gaze.
■ VERB
address
▪ To address such concerns, chapter 3 starts with two case histories from my own leadership experiences.
▪ The creative use of existing clubs and leisure facilities could go much of the way to addressing this concern.
▪ But Grody is quick to address the concerns of those who think swing dancing is about memorizing routines.
▪ I hope these observations go some way to addressing your concerns.
▪ Analysts at the Rand Corp. have proposed a notion that could address all of these concerns.
▪ Industry, labor, the government and others tried to address such concerns in 1994.
cause
▪ The imprecision of this offence has caused concern.
▪ Needless to say, this causes duck producers much concern and limits the potential enjoyment of this marvelous bird.
▪ At the time, the far right's surprise breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt caused widespread concern.
▪ The inaccurate economic predictions should cause concern about the reliability of the financial benefits of annexation.
▪ Finally, the possible actions of care managers cause concern.
▪ He told them he had received reports that had caused him grave concern.
▪ This has caused some concern as peaceful demonstrators may be prevented from marching because of the threat posed by a potentially disruptive counter-demonstration.
express
▪ Many teachers express concern that even their more able pupils do not fulfil their potential in the subject.
▪ UMass coach John Calipari said former players had called, expressing concern and support.
▪ Screening for diabetes during pregnancy Editor, - R J Jarrett expresses many concerns about the existence of gestational diabetes.
▪ Pearson expressed concern that the new codes would make it easier to develop hillsides and canyons, particularly in older coastal neighborhoods.
▪ But in the end she agreed to go with the Pitts to the local police station to express concern about the absentees.
▪ Grandmothers, with all good intentions, often express these concerns.
▪ The organisation Liberty has expressed concern that such widespread surveillance could infringe personal liberties.
▪ If this is the case, presumably you can openly express your concerns about any aspect of work to him.
grow
▪ The guidelines reflect a growing concern among ministers that the planned escalation of the programme could spark severe social tensions.
▪ It is still averaging eight, and there is growing concern that the virus is beginning to run out of control again.
increase
▪ Such simplifications are a focus of increasing feminist concern.
▪ It is also a subject of increasing public concern.
▪ With increasing concern for the environment, the need to recycle urban land becomes even stronger.
▪ Our increased concern for production in modern times would be remarkable in itself.
▪ In fact, the years of increasing concern for economic security have been ones of unparalleled advance in productivity.
raise
▪ This case raises concerns about the accuracy of audit data when patients are treated in this way.
▪ The few who have seen Durdiyev lately describe him as disoriented, raising concern that he may have been force-fed medication.
▪ In the majority of cases the plays did not formally raise specific political concerns which would warrant such close regulation.
▪ No matter how it worked, the idea raises ethical concerns for the medical profession, two physician-legislators said.
▪ Democrats in the Senate also raised concerns about who would benefit.
▪ The groups are deliberately kept small so participants can raise individual concerns and cases.
▪ In their statements, these organizations contributed ideas and raised issues of concern for participating States to take into consideration.
reflect
▪ It reflected growing concern about the level of spending on congressional election campaigns.
▪ But it also reflects a direct concern by President Clinton over the diplomatic and humanitarian effects of open-ended sanctions.
▪ This image has attracted extensive discussion from a range of perspectives, reflecting many differing concerns.
▪ Every collective bargaining contract is different, reflecting the concerns of teachers and school officials in diverse districts.
▪ The principle of ability to pay thus reflects a concern about vertical equity.
▪ Gene Taylor, D-Miss., but it reflected concerns a number of lawmakers voiced Tuesday about constituent complaints.
▪ Two later works reflected Sparke's professional concerns as a stationer.
▪ The subject never appears in polls reflecting major public concerns.
share
▪ Teachers and parents are so concerned about the future consequences of not doing schoolwork that they naturally share their concerns.
▪ His book comes out at a time when anyone who shares his concerns may be feeling particularly down-hearted.
▪ When her distraught daughter shared her concern, she too began to cry.
▪ Do you share your deep concerns?
▪ Short-lived, spontaneous aggregations of people who share a political concern are identified by Almond as anomie interest groups.
▪ Mr. Yeo I share the concern expressed by the hon. Gentleman for homeless people in Liverpool.
▪ Feinstein shares the widespread concern about identity theft and the creation of profiles or dossiers on individuals without their knowledge.
show
▪ Charterers have recently shown growing concern about the standards of maintenance of ships carrying their cargoes.
▪ For one thing, they show a concern for the dietary, and possibly healing, properties of growing things.
▪ And when Bernice shows her concern, Nicola assures her that everything is fine.
▪ If she showed any signs of concern, that would affect us the most.
▪ His crews worshipped him and he responded by showing a genuine concern for their welfare.
▪ Clinton has tried to show his concern for the state by visiting it more than 20 times since his election.
▪ He is a deeply spiritual man - that is part of his attraction - and he shows true concern for others.
▪ The survey showed that consumer concern about the economy was the single biggest factor affecting the building business in 1993.
voice
▪ Wail until you have calmed down enough so that you can voice your concerns and listen to his replies.
▪ Caen voiced concern at how minorities and immigrants are treated in the golden state.
▪ Campaigners against the arms trade also voiced concern that the Government is still refusing to allow Parliament proper scrutiny of exports.
▪ Many subject specialists have voiced concern about teaching bilingual students.
▪ Despite agreement on those provisions, the White House has voiced concern over several other sections of the measure.
▪ The major multiples have already voiced concerns over the system as refugees can not be given change when purchasing with vouchers.
▪ But officers have voiced concern about road safety, particularly when picking children up from Victoria Road and Waverley Terrace.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a going concern
▪ Although its assets are notionally worth £10 billion, their market value as a going concern must be far less.
▪ But you and I know the Soviet Union is a going concern.
▪ In January 1987 she went to live in Tenerife and on 8 May 1987 she sold the business as a going concern.
▪ Prides Hill Kennels was a going concern.
▪ The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern.
▪ The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
▪ The possibility that parts of the business could be sold off as a going concern should not be overlooked.
▪ To tell her that she and Piers were now a going concern?
allay (sb's) fear/concern/suspicion etc
▪ But he failed to allay fears that he will be a fatally flawed candidate when pitted against President Bush next autumn.
▪ In an attempt to allay these concerns, Rhone and other staff members met with citizens from the rehabilitation area several times.
▪ In this way he can discuss current information with his wife and help to allay her fears.
▪ Kelly argues that the removal of the requirement to aid decision-makers would allay fears.
▪ Margaret came from a wealthy family, and Richard was anxious to allay any suspicion that he had married for money.
▪ Sly had to allay their suspicions and stop them probing any further.
▪ Some Alliance supporters made statements that did little to allay such fears.
▪ The virtual extinction of the dragon sister tutor should also help to allay your fears.
as far as sb is concerned
▪ As far as I'm concerned, this is the council's decision, not mine.
▪ It's a good deal, as far as I'm concerned.
as far as sth is concerned
▪ As far as bilingual education is concerned, the schools are not doing a good enough job.
▪ Where taxes are concerned, savings bonds are better than certificates of deposit.
as/so far as I'm concerned
as/so far as sth is concerned
concerned with sb/sth
immediately involved/affected/concerned etc
▪ Civil society is constituted by the social relationships and processes outside paid employment and not immediately affected by the state.
▪ Henry's memory, of course, seemed only defective in matters that immediately concerned him.
▪ No one is more anxious that the penalties should be apt for the crime than those most immediately affected by prison disorder.
▪ The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation.
▪ The hearing is technically in public, though it is very rare for anyone other than those immediately involved to be present.
▪ The problem is to convince those who are not so immediately affected.
▪ Those most immediately affected given support.
▪ We are not immediately concerned whether they are based on off-line, optical discs or on online technology by way of broadband networks.
the least of sb's worries/problems/troubles/concerns
▪ For not the least of Henry's problems was how to raise the money required for the accomplishment of such an undertaking.
▪ Greatly increased taxes and a major shift back to defence expenditure could be the least of our worries.
▪ Not the least of its problems was extreme alienation between labor and management.
▪ That was the least of her troubles.
▪ The death under somewhat dubious circumstances of a racehorse belonging to his son was frankly the least of his problems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I did voice my concern about the financial management, but was told to stay quiet.
▪ Lopez thanked them for their concern.
▪ Mark's family is his first concern.
▪ My main concern is that the project won't be finished on time.
▪ My only concern about the match is that Price will be fit enough to take part.
▪ Raytheon is a defense contractor and engineering concern.
▪ The committee brushed aside concerns about racism and prejudice in local government.
▪ The hospital's main concern is that doctors are overworked.
▪ The incident has raised concerns that the government may retaliate.
▪ The shortage of water is beginning to cause widespread concern.
▪ The survey suggests that rising crime is the top of the average American's concerns.
▪ There is also some concern about the safety of the structure.
▪ This is a matter of grave concern to the hospital management.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In April 1990 reforms came into operation which addressed the first but not the second elements of concern outlined above.
▪ Scientists interviewed Thursday expressed concern about any weakening of the concrete beneath the Waterford, Conn., plant.
▪ The failure to recognise the difference between public concern about standards and public concern about price is what makes the Bill deficient.
▪ The most obvious: His expressed concern for the environment and his disdain for technology.
▪ The rigidity in tone and approach of the syllabuses and materials is also a matter for concern.
▪ Then Arab oil became the focus of Western concern, particularly following the 1973 war.
▪ Throughout these three arguments is the same social concern noted in the previous cluster.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
▪ I am deeply concerned, both for them and for my country.
▪ In the developed world, most nations professed themselves deeply concerned about low fertility rates.
▪ She was also deeply concerned for the spiritual needs of her relatives and household servants.
▪ Throughout his presidency, Roosevelt was always deeply concerned with religious opinion.
▪ I was deeply concerned, naturally, by these developments.
▪ Both the males and females are deeply concerned with child-rearing.
particularly
▪ Ethics and morals are particularly concerned with bringing the remoter consequences of behavior into play.
▪ The Employee Survey Results Senior management was particularly concerned about results from the most recent employee surveys.
▪ He did not, it has to be said, look particularly concerned.
▪ The Union was particularly concerned about poor storage for Mans Piper resulting in sprouting, which would mean extra processing.
▪ Prof Baker said he was particularly concerned about 236 excess deaths of patients in their own homes or Shipman's surgery.
primarily
▪ Private law primarily concerns the rights and obligations of citizens against and towards one another.
▪ The health administrator is primarily concerned with the latter three tasks.
▪ It is with this second group of writers that we are primarily concerned here.
▪ This subsection is primarily concerned with the actual procedures for the collection of data.
▪ If he is concerned primarily with survival value, he will design a culture with an eye to whether it will work.
▪ We are not concerned primarily to multiply elite livestock, and still less do we want to clone human beings.
▪ This article is concerned primarily with adoptions by non-relatives.
very
▪ Milford Haven coastguards are very concerned with the way that some divers are pursuing their sport.
▪ I know they are going to be very concerned, some more than others.
▪ The women who died after taking herbal diet aids were young and very concerned about their weight.
▪ But you could say she was very much in the Church, very concerned about suffering.
▪ Jack Schuster was very concerned: There were between two and three million brick involved overall.
■ NOUN
health
▪ The greatest uncertainty concerns Nelson Mandela's health.
▪ He had battled diabetes for years, and friends and family were concerned about his health.
▪ If we are genuinely concerned about the health of young people, such an approach should be questioned.
▪ Quezada and Zara said they were concerned about health care for their elderly grandparents.
▪ All have policies allowing women of child-bearing age to transfer to other jobs if they are concerned about health risks.
▪ Evidence of direct concern is the voluntary contributions people make to research organizations concerned with health and safety.
▪ Some of his intimates were seriously concerned with his health.
▪ Both sides then get to show how concerned about health benefits they are, and the voters win.
issue
▪ Such issues should concern the House and its Members when we are talking about rights, responsibilities and freedoms.
▪ In this appendix, I discuss several issues that concern many parents of children in kindergarten.
▪ But it is clear from the tone of his recent statements that the issue no longer concerns him deeply.
▪ Let us summarize some of the business issues concerned with network infrastructure investments.
▪ Another issue that concerns organic dairy producers is pasteurisation.
▪ He addressed the issues they were concerned with in a series of well-publicized town meetings on radio and television.
▪ One important issue here concerns the comparability as well as the validity of measures of achievement.
▪ Safety is not the only issue to be concerned about, however.
matter
▪ This is not a personal matter, it's a matter that concerns your business integrity.
▪ Employees have little input on matters that directly concern them.
▪ Also, although productive efficiency is the central, it is not the sole issue where these matters are concerned.
▪ If the matters concerned had not been so grave, it would have been equal to any comedy.
problem
▪ Interestingly, many ecologists are far more concerned about the problem of resistance than they are about horizontal transfer.
▪ It is a disgrace that politicians here never seem to concern themselves with these problems.
▪ Fonti was concerned about problems of access and coordination on the site now that it had reached peak activity.
▪ The parochial is concerned exclusively with individual problems arising in the ward he or she represents.
▪ With warm weather coming, the residents are concerned about potential mosquito problems with the flooded, open field.
▪ That is why the countries of the developing South are increasingly concerned about climatic problems.
▪ As she expected, they were not overly concerned about her problem.
question
▪ These questions concern the model of speech processing.
▪ The second question concerns scholarship: What kind of scholar is a sociologist or a type of sociologist?
▪ The first question concerns the individual, structural, and cultural factors that motivate people to rebel.
▪ This raises questions / concerns about installing new kitchen cabinets that will have their own back resting against the outside wall.
▪ The conflict under way, the significant questions are those which concern its conduct.
▪ The second question concerning the goals of a semantic theory is, How should the theory handle these semantic properties and relations?
▪ The first question concerns the basis of the categorizations.
▪ Cindy responded to all their questions and concerns.
safety
▪ Selling merchandise in a public place carries heavy responsibilities, so we concern ourselves with the safety of our customers.
▪ McCarthy said he been told of the pilots' concerns by air safety officials from at least three major airlines.
▪ Regulators say that although the erosion does not pose an immediate risk, they are concerned about its long-term safety implications.
▪ Evidence of direct concern is the voluntary contributions people make to research organizations concerned with health and safety.
▪ The steps are short-term measures aimed at easing public concerns about airbag safety while the automakers work to develop safer airbags.
■ VERB
cause
▪ Hinkley Point A, opened in 1971, has been in trouble for some time with faulty pipework causing safety concerns.
▪ This possibility need not cause us too much concern, however.
▪ Moreover, some of problems caused by this directive concern the second-hand car market rather than works of art.
▪ It caused enough concern that Rep.
▪ He sat watching Casey's face for several minutes, her frailty causing him concern.
▪ Step 4 Select the single most important behaviour that is causing you concern.
express
▪ However, Anthony said some members of the community expressed concerns the work did not seem to be progressing quickly enough.
▪ Henry H.. Shelton expressed concern last week to Rumsfeld about the defense secretary s review of the military.
raise
▪ The legislation has raised concerns about academic freedom, parental rights and government authority.
▪ This raises questions / concerns about installing new kitchen cabinets that will have their own back resting against the outside wall.
▪ That raised concern that profit growth may be slowing.
▪ Higher interest rates often raise concern about slower economic growth and weaker corporate profits.
▪ The Cipla offer raised concerns that patent laws may be breached in some countries.
▪ The idea of keeping personal information on the Internet immediately raises concerns about privacy.
▪ The U. S. Secret Service has also raised security concerns.
▪ Recently, the Internet has raised many new security concerns.
seem
▪ But I don't think he comes just for that, he seems genuinely concerned for him.
▪ Three things seem to concern the apostle.
▪ It seemed to concern his father and the stranger, and as such, must be of the most terrible importance.
▪ Other justices seemed concerned with the young age of the grade-school children involved.
▪ Anyway, it didn't seem to concern her - she would simply make another nest and lay some more.
▪ These shares had a big run in 1995 and investors seemed concerned their profit growth will slow.
▪ But other questions seem to concern the inner man.
▪ She seemed more concerned about your digestion than anything else.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a going concern
▪ Although its assets are notionally worth £10 billion, their market value as a going concern must be far less.
▪ But you and I know the Soviet Union is a going concern.
▪ In January 1987 she went to live in Tenerife and on 8 May 1987 she sold the business as a going concern.
▪ Prides Hill Kennels was a going concern.
▪ The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern.
▪ The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
▪ The possibility that parts of the business could be sold off as a going concern should not be overlooked.
▪ To tell her that she and Piers were now a going concern?
as far as sb is concerned
▪ As far as I'm concerned, this is the council's decision, not mine.
▪ It's a good deal, as far as I'm concerned.
as far as sth is concerned
▪ As far as bilingual education is concerned, the schools are not doing a good enough job.
▪ Where taxes are concerned, savings bonds are better than certificates of deposit.
as/so far as I'm concerned
as/so far as sth is concerned
concerned with sb/sth
have a right to be angry/concerned/suspicious etc
immediately involved/affected/concerned etc
▪ Civil society is constituted by the social relationships and processes outside paid employment and not immediately affected by the state.
▪ Henry's memory, of course, seemed only defective in matters that immediately concerned him.
▪ No one is more anxious that the penalties should be apt for the crime than those most immediately affected by prison disorder.
▪ The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation.
▪ The hearing is technically in public, though it is very rare for anyone other than those immediately involved to be present.
▪ The problem is to convince those who are not so immediately affected.
▪ Those most immediately affected given support.
▪ We are not immediately concerned whether they are based on off-line, optical discs or on online technology by way of broadband networks.
the least of sb's worries/problems/troubles/concerns
▪ For not the least of Henry's problems was how to raise the money required for the accomplishment of such an undertaking.
▪ Greatly increased taxes and a major shift back to defence expenditure could be the least of our worries.
▪ Not the least of its problems was extreme alienation between labor and management.
▪ That was the least of her troubles.
▪ The death under somewhat dubious circumstances of a racehorse belonging to his son was frankly the least of his problems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It concerns me that some tutors are meeting with students outside college hours.
▪ Kate's behaviour at school is starting to concern her parents.
▪ Many of Woody Allen's movies concern life in New York.
▪ Much of the material in her early letters concerns events which happened some years before.
▪ The potential for abuse of these products concerns me a great deal.
▪ The tax changes will concern large corporations more than small businesses.
▪ We are deeply concerned by America's neglect of its youth.
▪ What concerns me most is that despite pay increases, production has not improved.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It concerned the assassination of foreign leaders from a philosophical point of view.
▪ Why are you concerning yourself about these matters? she queried mentally while staring at the typewriter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
concern
Going \Go"ing\, p. pr. of Go. Specif.:
That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working; in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest men going; going prices or rate.
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Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on, with an indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases
concern, etc.
Of or pertaining to a going business or concern; as, the going value of a company.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
concern
early 15c., "perceive, distinguish," also "refer to, relate to," from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concernere "concern, touch, belong to," figurative use of Late Latin concernere "to sift, mix, as in a sieve," from Latin com- "with" (see com-) + cernere "to sift," hence "perceive, comprehend" (see crisis). Apparently the sense of the prefix shifted to intensive in Medieval Latin. Meaning "worry" is 17c. Related: Concerned; concerning. Letter opening to whom it may concern attested by 1740.
concern
1580s, from concern (v.).
Wiktionary
concern
n. That which affects one's welfare or happiness. vb. 1 (label en transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. 2 (label en transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
WordNet
concern
n. something that interests you because it is important or affects you; "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern"
an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction" [syn: care, fear]
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" [syn: business, business concern, business organization, business organisation]
something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry" [syn: worry, headache, vexation]
a feeling of sympathy for someone or something; "She felt strong concern for those less fortunate" [ant: unconcern]
v. have to do with or be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" [syn: refer, pertain, relate, come to, bear on, touch, touch on]
be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant" [syn: interest, occupy, worry]
Wikipedia
Concern (computer science)
In computer science, a concern is a particular set of information that has an effect on the code of a computer program. A concern can be as general as the details of database interaction or as specific as performing a primitive calculation, depending on the level of conversation between developers and the program being discussed. IBM uses the term concern space to describe the sectioning of conceptual information.
Usually the code can be separated into logical sections, each addressing separate concerns, and so it hides the need for a given section to know particular information addressed by a different section. This leads to a modular program. Edsger W. Dijkstra coined the term " separation of concerns" to describe the mentality behind this modularization, which allows the programmer to reduce the complexity of the system being designed. Two different concerns that intermingle in the same section of code are called " highly coupled". Sometimes the chosen module divisions do not allow for one concern to be completely separated from another, resulting in cross-cutting concerns. The various programming paradigms address the issue of cross-cutting concerns to different degrees. Data logging is a common cross-cutting concern, being used in many other parts of the program other than the particular module(s) that actually log the data. Since changes to the logging code can affect other sections, it could introduce bugs in the operation of the program.
Paradigms that specifically address the issue of concern separation:
- Object-oriented programming, describing concerns as objects
- Functional programming, describing concerns as functions
- Aspect-oriented software development, treating concerns and their interaction as constructs of their own standing
Concern
Concern may refer to:
- Worry, an emotion
- Concern (organization) : Student society in Indian Institute of Science, India.
- Concern (business), a German type of group company
- Concern (computer science), an abstract concept about program behavior
- Concern (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Concern Worldwide, an Irish charity
- Concerned, a webcomic parodying the video game Half-Life 2
Concern (organisation)
Concern is a student organisation in Indian Institute of Science, which tries to generate debate on socio-politico-economic issues in the academic and scientific community of Bangalore. Over the years, it has been fairly active both at generating awareness and lending support to people's movements.
Concern (horse)
Concern (February 14, 1991 – March 2015) was a multi-millionaire American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by top stallion Broad Brush, who in turn was a son of Ack Ack. His dam was Fara's Team. Foaled in Maryland, Concern was best known for his wins in the 1994 Breeders' Cup Classic and the grade two Arkansas Derby. Born at owner Robert Meyerhoff's Fitzhugh Farm in Phoenix, Maryland. To date, Concern is one of only three Maryland-bred horses ever to surpass the three million dollar mark in earnings. The other two were Cigar and Awad. He finished racing with a record of 7-7-11 in 30 starts and career earnings of $3,079,350.
Concern (business)
A concern is a type of business group common in Europe, particularly in Germany. It results from the merger of several legally independent companies into a single economic entity under unified management.
A concern consists of a controlling enterprise and one or more controlled enterprises. The relationship between the controlling and controlled enterprises is based on the actual commercial and management relationships, unlike parent and subsidiary companies which are related by share ownership and voting rights.
Outside of professionals, the term Group, also mistakenly within the meaning of large companies – regardless of its corporate structure – is understood.
The Group concept is one of anti-trust relevance: the so-called Group privilege, the privilege of the consolidated Group companies involved, means that in itself, prohibition included practices did not violate German or European Commission (EC) anti-trust law. On the other hand, the Group concept in Banking Act in the formation of borrower unit and particularly of the large credit limits of paramount importance.
Usage examples of "concern".
Bremer was so concerned by the tone of the aardwolf that he felt compelled to write an accompanying note at the end of the report, in which he downplayed its analysis of the worsening conditions in Iraq.
He had gotten Davy and her out of Said Ababa, worked selflessly to straighten out that hideous red tape concerning her supposed death, given generously of his time and money.
Discourse and humble Advise for our Gratious Queene Elizabeth, her most Excellent Majestie to peruse and consider, as concerning the needful Reformation of the Vulgar Kalender for the civile yeres and daies accompting, or verifyeng, according to the tyme truely spent.
Discourse and humble Advise for our Gratious Queen Elizabeth, her most Excellent Majestie to peruse and consider, as concerning the needful Reformation of the Vulgar Kalendar for the civile yeres and daies accompting, or verifyeng, according to the tyme trewly spent.
Gregg and the SCARE aces had been involved in government suppression of facts concerning the Swarm Mother attack.
John Adams advised Abigail concerning the raising of their own children.
As for his initial concern that the rigors of Congress might be too much for someone of such delicate appearance, Adams had learned better.
But writing again to Warren, Adams tried to explain the concern and hesitation over independence.
On June 16, as had become routine, Adams sent Vergennes some latest items of news from America, these concerning the American currency.
OF THE MULTIPLE ISSUES in contention between Britain and the new United States of America, and that John Adams had to address as minister, nearly all were holdovers from the Treaty of Paris, agreements made but not resolved, concerning debts, the treatment of Loyalists, compensation for slaves and property confiscated by the British, and the continued presence of British troops in America.
A letter to Adams concerning whale oil, sent in late September, was written and signed for Jefferson by his aide, William Short.
He was not so concerned about a President staying long in office, Adams said, as he was about too frequent elections, which often brought out the worst in people and increased the chances of foreign influence.
If Adams was concerned about making ends meet, Washington had had to arrange a loan to cover personal debts and the expense of moving to New York.
Questions of ceremony and etiquette, such matters as how properly to address the President, required prompt attention, and to Adams these were no small concerns.
A Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq.