concern
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4.4
- noun
- /kənˈsɜrn/
:
empresa
- The environmental concern has led the company to adopt more sustainable practices.
- industrial concerns
- commercial concerns
Examples
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18 The wTe Corp, an environmental concern, has grown rapidly since its start-up and employs 200 workers.
Academic text (1993) -
In 2005, my grandfather started a family-owned concern that specializes in organic farming.
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Although a large Japanese industrial concern is...
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Since the airport is our first contact, it's my primary concern.
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It becomes a going concern after his death.
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You come from a business family and sympathize with the concerns of business people.
Academic text (1992) -
His father-in-law owns a concern.
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The suburban vision remains an ongoing commercial concern, but desperately needs replenishment to seem new again.
Fiction book (2000) -
At this time, Omnicorp's sole concern is the full recovery of Detective Murphy.
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Many pharmaceutical companies and other medical concerns side with Prometheus, seeking broad patent protection for their research and tests.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A company or shop and the people who work there
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6.9
A company that is legally created to do business
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4.1
A large company that is a legal business
3
2.9
A group that sells things or provides services and has people working in it
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3.2
A company that sells goods or provides services, including its people
A company that puts words and pictures on paper for other businesses
Compounds
How Big
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4.4
∞
3.7
58
4.4
169
3.6
- Canadian
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2.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Concern comes from Latin concernere 'to bring together', and because it was used for a 'matter' that belongs to people, it later became a word for a business or company — a firm is often called a 'concern'.