going concern
[ U or C ]
the fact of feeling worried about something, or something that makes you worry:
concern about/over sthThere was a lot of public concern over the new legislation.
Please raise any concerns regarding this decision with your manager.
concern
verb[ T ]
uk /kənˈsɜːn/us
to be important to someone, or to involve or affect someone:
Managers complained that they were spending too much time going to meetings that didn't actually concern them.
to worry someone:
If there are issues which concern you, discuss the matter with a specialist financial adviser.
(alsobe concerned with)
to be about a particular subject:
Our research is concerned with new forms of work organization.
 To whom it may concern
COMMUNICATIONS
a phrase you write at the beginning of a formal or public letter when you do not know exactly who it should be sent to

Examples of concern

concern
Repeating this process with a sample group permits the efficient collection of a substantial data set concerning underlying preferences.
The authors nonetheless effectively argue for pairing qualitative and quantitative techniques based on the teacher-researcher's specific pedagogical concerns.
Having become a mass profession, science was no longer suspected of becoming elitist and separated from the life and concerns of ordinary people.
Firstly, one might hold that philosophical ideas should stand or fall on their content, rather than upon the reputation of the philosopher concerned.
Such green speculations are problematic and will not be pursued further; purely human needs are the concern here.
My argument in this article concerns mental representations of situations in the world, as these representations existed before language, and even before communication.
The net impact concerns the effect on parties.
Only where both coincide can business be expected to act out of moral concerns for past sins or the future public good.
A second relevant concern here is whether we can treat the 901 respondents in our sample as a random subset of all survey participants.
A particularly sensitive issue concerns the registration of voters and the respective roles of the electoral commission and the interior ministry.
And this is because the community manifests equal concern, and the rule is integral in defining rights and roles in the community.
Other representations concerned with technical, cognitive and musical skills may be acquired concurrently.
All are concerned with telling the story of her life.
My death is the event that is supposed to make us morally concerned in the first place.
Devising relevant tables for each system concerned may not be feasible.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withconcern

concern

These are words often used in combination with concern.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

abiding concern
The results inevitably reflected the lack of money available and the abiding concern with the optimization of manpower and materials.
aesthetic concern
Needless to say, there are other ways in which the divine can be represented, independently of any affective or aesthetic concern.
budgetary concern
While the budgetary concerns continue to influence policy changes, inflation becomes a significant factor in pension adjustments.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
See all collocations with concern