concern

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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.
noun
  • 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.
– origin ME: from Fr. concerner or late L. concernere (in med. L. ‘be relevant to’), from con- (expressing intensive force) + cernere ‘sift, discern’.
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