concern
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
concern/kənˈsɜːn/
▶verb
- 1 relate to; be about.
■ affect or involve.
- 2 worry (someone).
- 3 (be concerned with/to do something) regard it as important to do something.
- 1 worry; anxiety.
- 2 a matter of interest or importance.
- 3 a business.
– phrases
as (or so) far as someone/thing is concerned as regards the interests or case of someone or something.
have no concern with have nothing to do with.
to whom it may concern used to address a reader whose identity is unknown.
as (or so) far as someone/thing is concerned as regards the interests or case of someone or something.
have no concern with have nothing to do with.
to whom it may concern used to address a reader whose identity is unknown.
– origin ME: from Fr. concerner or late L. concernere (in med. L. ‘be relevant to’), from con- (expressing intensive force) + cernere ‘sift, discern’.
'concern' also found in these Oxford entries:
affair
- agitate
- alas
- allay
- altruism
- -arian
- backyard
- bat
- beeswax
- bother
- business
- care
- careerist
- cavalier
- centre
- cluck
- compassion
- concession
- cure
- cynical
- dandified
- disinterested
- do
- -eer
- formalism
- fuss
- going concern
- grave
- heart
- Impressionism
- indaba
- insensitive
- interest
- liaise
- meddle
- mind
- mindless
- mushroom
- nothing
- provincialism
- public
- question
- regard
- reject
- relate
- republic
- solicitous
- solicitude
- stakeholder

