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Thesaurus: concern

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

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  1. v. t. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
  2. v. t. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
  3. v. i. To be of importance.
  4. n. That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.
  5. n. That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.
  6. n. Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.
  7. n. Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.
  8. n. something that interests you because it is important or affects you
  9. n. an anxious feeling
  10. n. a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
  11. n. something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
  12. n. a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it