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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concerned
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unduly worried/concerned/anxious etc
▪ She doesn’t seem unduly concerned about her exams.
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
■ ADVERB
also
▪ It was also concerned with the effect of nationalized industry deficits on public borrowing and hence on inflation and interest rates.
▪ Wendy and I were at once amused and embarrassed, but also concerned lest he be mown down by a passing train.
▪ We are also concerned with the political environment within which all organisations operate.
▪ The food companies were also concerned over the absence of an irradiation test, which makes monitoring impossible.
▪ They were also concerned with curriculum development, advisory support and in-service education.
▪ Pandolfi is also concerned at the lack of funds available for research into renewable energy.
▪ The Government is also concerned at the way exotic birds are transported.
▪ She is also concerned that Amy is not putting on weight and that Keith disregards her.
deeply
▪ They are deeply concerned about the scientists' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature.
▪ We are deeply concerned for the fate of all those thousands of women and men who remain in prison.
▪ Many people are deeply concerned about the neglect of crofting land.
▪ The Government are deeply concerned that they may lose seats south of the border as a result of the community charge.
▪ Yes, I am still deeply concerned with the movement.
▪ The Governors were not simply parsimonious: in truth they continued to be deeply concerned about the financial state of the School.
▪ In this sense it is not surprising that the study of social policy has been deeply concerned with the improvement of policies.
▪ They were deeply concerned about Prince Charles's decision to give up shooting as well as his inclination towards vegetarianism.
directly
▪ With the particular merits and demerits of these proposals I am not here directly concerned.
▪ It is directly concerned with individuals, with their minds and with their own way of looking at things.
▪ You will find your professional abilities to be in constant demand and you will be directly concerned with the provision of services.
▪ It is likely to occur to an individual directly concerned with the problem.
▪ The majority of blacks are working class and many black organizations are directly concerned with improving their class situation.
▪ On a more general level, the past was often implied in works which were not directly concerned with portraying it.
▪ The directly concerned populations are invariably viewed as passive recipients of plans.
▪ That is, it is not directly concerned with material gain; delinquency centring on vandalism or violence is an obvious example.
increasingly
▪ Local conservationists have become increasingly concerned about the impact of the booming trade in wild fungi in the region.
▪ Five years ago, increasingly concerned about the environment, he decided to work directly for an environmental group.
▪ Research is increasingly concerned with evaluation of services as well as assessment of need.
▪ I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student.
▪ Police became increasingly concerned for their prisoner's health over the weekend.
▪ Feminist psychologists are also increasingly concerned to avoid dogmatism and prescription.
▪ Field studies were also important for early efforts to monitor the environment, an area with which governments were increasingly concerned.
▪ Nevertheless ecology has started with that which is obvious to the eye and is increasingly concerned with what is not.
mainly
▪ My criticisms are mainly concerned with Blake's handling of some major theoretical issues and with certain parts of the book.
▪ These factories are mainly concerned with manufacturing product for artists signed to the record company.
▪ In Formen Marx is mainly concerned with other contradictory combinations of incompatible social principles.
▪ Governments, like theoretical economists, tend to be mainly concerned with the short run.
▪ Our report is mainly concerned with 1984 onwards.
▪ This is mainly concerned with economic restructuring and agricultural development, a considerable part of it linked to the environment.
▪ The museum is mainly concerned with the local textile industry, and is particularly good on the period of the Luddite riots.
▪ The school ethos was mainly concerned with turning out well-educated, potential wives of professional able-bodied men.
more
▪ In other parts of the country, youth justice workers are more concerned about the massive backlog of cases.
▪ And now we're more concerned with our little rules than with what's going to happen to mummy in the future.
▪ Instead of putting all her efforts into resisting him, she'd been more concerned about not admitting her love.
▪ I am much more concerned that Eve gets well and is aware that we have all made things easier.
▪ Health People are becoming more and more concerned about the healthiness of their diet and way of life.
▪ But I am much more concerned with the reputation of the Liberal Democrats.
▪ We also have an over-compassionate bench and judiciary more concerned with the theory of justice than with its practical implementation.
▪ Generally, the Sussex men were more concerned with good government and the maintenance of reasonable religion than major social change.
much
▪ In fact, hip hop and body pop aren't so much concerned with pure aggression as with survival.
▪ In any case, Weber is not very much concerned about the absence of popular control over the political elites.
▪ They were charming and friendly and very much concerned to hear that Fontaine is missing.
▪ The revisionist theorists were also, however, much concerned with strong and stable government.
▪ He or she is not house-proud or much concerned with appearances.
▪ He's not much concerned with other people's feelings or wishes.
▪ Elderly diarists were rare, and younger diarists not much concerned with observing the old.
▪ Nor is it much concerned with exceptions to the rule that, to every effect, there is one principal cause.
particularly
▪ Neither have women's organisations been particularly concerned with occupational schemes of family allowances.
▪ Foreign usage is not particularly concerned with the documentary character of a constitution.
▪ Durkheim was particularly concerned with the issue of order in society.
▪ We have been particularly concerned in this study with the large to very large enterprise.
▪ For example, if the business is a retail operation the purchaser will be particularly concerned about the level and quality of stocks.
▪ It is particularly concerned to ensure fair and equal treatment for all shareholders.
▪ Geaga was particularly concerned about the presence of fighters loyal to his arch-rival, Elie Hobeika.
primarily
▪ Although primarily concerned with routine white-collar work, Braverman does believe that some professional jobs have also become deskilled.
▪ Few of the canvases are primarily concerned with landscape, but it tends to find its way into most of them.
▪ The case was primarily concerned with the new procedure for remedies.
▪ In contrast, government spending on transfer payments is primarily concerned with equity and income redistribution.
▪ In conclusion, budgetary accounting is primarily concerned with the form of the financial accounts rather than their content.
▪ While written tests are primarily concerned with the content objectives, mathematical investigations submitted as coursework test the process objectives.
▪ In its early days the Association was primarily concerned with campaigning for garden cities.
▪ As with the Merseyside Task Force, they were to be primarily concerned with project development and not with issues of strategy.
so
▪ This is why I was so concerned when we were making the new set of the Beethoven symphonies in 1977.
▪ She was so concerned about her unborn baby, she usually over-reacted to any untoward symptom.
▪ Tepilit would question her about her interest in Masai women and why she seemed so concerned with their unremarkable tasks.
▪ She's so pretty, and so concerned about the planet!
▪ The other Protocol parties might not be so concerned about the breach and not take any steps in response.
▪ In a work so concerned with the transmission of cultural values this is appropriate.
▪ That is why the hon. Gentleman is so concerned.
▪ The club are so concerned, they held a top level meeting this week to stop any more defections.
very
▪ I mustn't keep you away from her, but will you tell her that my wife and I are very concerned?
▪ He says that they are very concerned.
▪ Fatima was very concerned about her health, but Jane was amused to note that there was nothing wrong with her lungs.
▪ Trade unionists say they're very concerned about the allegations.
▪ But in general, parents love their daughters, and are very concerned about them and their welfare.
▪ I am very concerned about women, their rights and how they are looked after and protected at work.
▪ They tend to be very concerned with a good social life and the concept of freedom.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as/so far as I'm concerned
as/so far as sth is concerned
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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Concerned parents approached the school about the problem.
▪ A TV programme about cruelty to children brought hundreds of letters from concerned viewers.
▪ I'm very concerned about Veronica. She looks so pale, and she has no appetite.
▪ Rescuers are concerned for the safety of two men trapped in the mine.
▪ World governments are becoming increasingly concerned about rising global temperature levels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As far as restarting the musical life in Vienna was concerned, we had the problem that the occupying forces often contradicted each other.
▪ Counselling is concerned with maintaining the quality of life of older people for as long as possible.
▪ Face validity reflects the extent to which the test items appear to be concerned with the abilities in question.
▪ I didn't know enough about any of the personalities concerned to form any views of my own.
▪ The new economic climate of the late sixteenth century brought advantages and disadvantages so far as the funeral was concerned.
▪ These tended to portray him as being concerned with little more than his own power.
▪ This confidence seems unjustified, at least as far as capital asset charging is concerned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concerned

Concern \Con*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concerned; p. pr. & vb. n. Concerning.] [F. concerner, LL. concernere to regard, concern, fr. L. concernere to mix or mingle together, as in a sieve for separating; con- + cernere to separate, sift, distinguish by the senses, and especially by the eyes, to perceive, see. See Certain.]

  1. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

    Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
    --Acts xxviii. 31.

    Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.
    --Addison.

    It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn.
    --Dodsley.

    Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned.
    --J. F. Cooper.

  2. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.

    They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor.
    --Rogers.

Concerned

Concerned \Con*cerned"\, a. [See Concern, v. t., 2.] Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.

Wiktionary
concerned

  1. 1 Showing concern. 2 Involved or responsible. v

  2. (en-past of: concern)

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WordNet
concerned

  1. adj. feeling or showing worry or solicitude; "concerned parents of youthful offenders"; "was concerned about the future"; "we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"; "greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child" [ant: unconcerned]

  2. involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business" [syn: interested]

  3. in relation (or in regard) to; especially as in the phrases; "as far as x is concerned"; "where x is concerned"

  4. culpably involved; "all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified"; "named three officials implicated in the plot"; "an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime" [syn: implicated]

Wikipedia
Concerned

Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman is a webcomic created by Christopher C. Livingston, parodying the first-person shooter video game Half-Life 2. The comic consists of game screenshots, with characters posed using Garry's Mod, a tool which facilitates manipulation of the Source engine used by Half-Life 2. The first issue was launched on May 1, 2005. The comic completed its run on November 6, 2006 with a total of 205 issues.

While Half-Life 2 follows protagonist Gordon Freeman in a dystopian future, Concerned follows a similar path through the eyes of "Gordon Frohman", a dangerously clumsy character who arrives in the setting of the game a few weeks before Freeman does. The webcomic's dark humor is derived from its contrasts with the game and through references to the game's shortcomings. On several occasions in the comic, Frohman becomes the cause of various disastrous circumstances that Freeman will later encounter.

Concerned has been well received by critics and fans alike. Several reviews praised the attention to writing and presentation, as well as the comic's humor. Livingston has also reported uniformly positive relations with personnel at Valve, the developer company of Half-Life 2, who were pleased to have a comic based on their game.

Usage examples of "concerned".

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 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.

Concerned about the trials she would face as the wife of so prominent a public man, Adams cautioned her to study stoicism.

If he concerned himself with these latter subjects at all, it was only because he could express his radical ideas through them, by an adroit use of Aesopian language, with a little more freedom.

If capital today is more concerned with ensuring that individuals perform their social labor as consumers, then we can see Condomology as an instance of aestheticizing the political economy.

But Agassiz, though always within call, concerned himself no further with me that day, nor the next, nor for a week.

To have pulled it off, the agents concerned would have had to act with far greater technical competence in framing him than they had in attempting to hunt him down.

The doubtful condition of Lucknow, Benares, and Agra comes in the rear of all this to strike a frost into the heart, or would do so, again I say, if any other nation were concerned.

His gift of precognition had never been strong, and when it concerned his own future he was painfully nearsighted, a fact Aisling attributed to his tainted blood.

It certainly made no odds as far as my oath to Aiten was concerned, I reminded myself.

As Akim pointed out, anyone coming in through the tunnel would probably be more concerned with his footing than with watching the walls, anyway.

To that end, Piatakov demanded every scrap of information that concerned SD-1, the Alamo operation, and Ripley Forte and his associates, their relatives, the friends of their relatives, and the relatives of their friends.

The three options concerned the iceberg Alamo, which Piatakov surmised, based on the information in his files about the Salvation, must still be part of a glacier in Antarctica, as yet unseen by man.

This evening - Alfredo Morales was bound upon a special mission - a work that concerned Lucien Partridge as well as others.