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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concur
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
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▪ Mr Justice Frankfurter wrote a concurring opinion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I think this was a sound decision," concurred Prof. Barbara Stevens.
▪ "My opinion exactly", he concurred.
▪ He resigned three years later, because he did not concur with the division of the country into separate republics.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I therefore concur with both the judgments that have been delivered.
▪ Only nine of the 12 jurors had to concur.
▪ The principal findings of the Implications Team, concurred in by the 350 members of the plenary, were twofold.
▪ Working only from photographs, I can only concur.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concur

Concur \Con*cur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Concurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Concurring.] [L. concurrere to run together, agree; con- + currere to run. See Current.]

  1. To run together; to meet. [Obs.]

    Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates.
    --J. Hughes.

  2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.

    When outward causes concur.
    --Jer. Colier.

  3. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.

    Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion.
    --Fox.

    Tories and Whigs had concurred in paying honor to Walker.
    --Makaulay.

    This concurs directly with the letter.
    --Shak.

  4. To assent; to consent. [Obs.]
    --Milton.

    Syn: To agree; unite; combine; conspire; coincide; approve; acquiesce; assent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
concur

early 15c., "collide, clash in hostility," from Latin concurrere "to run together, assemble hurriedly; clash, fight," in transferred use, "to happen at the same time," from com- "together" (see com-) + currere "to run" (see current (adj.)). Sense of "to coincide, happen at the same time" is 1590s; that of "to agree in opinion" is 1580s in English.

Wiktionary
concur

vb. 1 To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond. 2 To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect. 3 (context obsolete English) To run together; to meet.

WordNet
concur
  1. v. be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concord] [ant: disagree]

  2. happen simultaneously; "The two events coincided" [syn: coincide]

  3. [also: concurring, concurred]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "concur".

When Senator Ellsworth observed how very ordinary the mere appellation of President sounded, Adams immediately concurred from the Chair.

She had her usual complaints--repairs were needed, good servants impossible to find, the local prices outrageous--but the longer she stayed at Richmond Hill, the more attached she became, and Adams concurred.

He had had enough of one war to wish ever to see another, Jefferson wrote, and to this Adams concurred wholeheartedly.

Through the wide range of repetitions where all the levels of composition and structure concur in a common Donjuanesque examination of time, Kundera achieves a fascinating novelistic synthesis in which the esthetic, erotic, ethical, playful and cognitive functions combine as in a single semantic river.

I concur with Dors and Daneel that any attempt to harm or interfere with Hari Seldon would be counterproductive.

I must tell you at the outset, Falls, that if you concur with the official view of this case, I utterly disagree with you.

Teressa Aliss had been very clear about her order, repeating it over the comm just before the vehicles rolled out of New Ibadan, and both of the young officers from the Enterprise had concurred with her.

As both these learned men concurred in censuring Jones, so were they no less unanimous in applauding Master Blifil.

In separate concurring opinions Chief Justice Stone and Justice Frankfurter reserved judgment on the question of territorial jurisdiction.

Although four Justices are recorded as concurring in the opinion, their accompanying opinions whittle their concurrence in some instances to the vanishing point.

Apis, represented by a bull, was the living and sensible image of the Sun or Osiris, when in union with Isis or the Moon at the Vernal Equinox, concurring with her in provoking everything that lives to generation.

Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are all the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native-born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.

States, cordially concurring with the Congress of the United States, in the penitential and pious sentiments expressed in the aforesaid resolutions, and heartily approving of the devotional design and purpose thereof, do hereby appoint the first Thursday of August next to be observed by the people of the United States as a day of national humiliation and prayer.

After this manner villenage went gradually into disuse throughout the more civilized parts of Europe: the interest of the master, as well as that of the slave, concurred in this alteration.

Although the act of 1789 left the power over writs subject largely to the common law, it is significant as a reflection of the belief, in which the courts have on the whole concurred, that an act of Congress is necessary to confer judicial power to issue writs.