concern

concern
    n 1: something that interests you because it is important or
         affects you; "the safety of the ship is the captain's
         concern"
    2: an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up
       out of fear of public reaction" [syn: {concern}, {care},
       {fear}]
    3: a feeling of sympathy for someone or something; "She felt
       strong concern for those less fortunate" [ant: {unconcern}]
    4: something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of
       unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's
       a major worry" [syn: {concern}, {worry}, {headache},
       {vexation}]
    5: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who
       constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small
       mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business
       concern" [syn: {business}, {concern}, {business concern},
       {business organization}, {business organisation}]
    v 1: be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to
         her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
         [syn: {refer}, {pertain}, {relate}, {concern}, {come to},
         {bear on}, {touch}, {touch on}, {have-to doe with}]
    2: be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic
       consonant shift" [syn: {concern}, {interest}, {occupy},
       {worry}]
    

Going \Go"ing\, p. pr. of {Go}. Specif.:
      (a) That goes; in existence; available for present use or
          enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working;
          in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest
          men going; going prices or rate.
      (b) Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting
          business, or carried on, with an indefinite prospect
          of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases

   {a going business},

   {concern}, etc.
      (c) Of or pertaining to a going business or concern; as,
          the going value of a company.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Goiter
    

Concern \Con*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concerned}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Concerning}.] [F. concerner, LL. concernere to
   regard, concern, fr. L. concernere to mix or mingle together,
   as in a sieve for separating; con- + cernere to separate,
   sift, distinguish by the senses, and especially by the eyes,
   to perceive, see. See {Certain}.]
   1. 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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            Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those
            things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. --Acts
                                                  xxviii. 31.
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            Our wars with France have affected us in our most
            tender interests, and concerned us more than those
            with any other nation.                --Addison.
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            It much concerns a preacher first to learn
            The genius of his audience and their turn.
                                                  --Dodsley.
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            Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is
            concerned.                            --J. F.
                                                  Cooper.
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   2. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good
      prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
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            They think themselves out the reach of Providence,
            and no longer concerned to solicit his favor.
                                                  --Rogers.
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Concern \Con*cern"\, v. i.
   To be of importance. [Obs.]
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         Which to deny concerns more than avails. --Shak.
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Concern \Con*cern"\, n.
   1. That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.
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            The private concerns of fanilies.     --Addison.
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   2. That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest;
      moment.
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            Mysterious secrets of a high concern. --Roscommon.
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   3. Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard;
      solicitude; anxiety.
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            O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns
            And gentle wishes follow me to battle. --Addison.
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   4. (Com.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its
      business; as, a banking concern.
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   {The whole concern}, all connected with a particular affair
      or business.

   Syn: Care; anxiety; solicitude; interest; regard; business;
        affair; matter; moment. See {Care}.
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372 Moby Thesaurus words for "concern":
      Aktiengesellschaft, TLC, absorb, academic discipline,
      academic specialty, accent, accommodatingness, activities,
      activity, affair, affairs, affect, affect the interest, agency,
      agitate, agitation, agreeableness, ail, aktiebolag, all-overs,
      angst, answer to, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria,
      anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat,
      anxiousness, appertain to, applicability, application,
      applied science, apply to, appositeness, apprehension,
      apprehensiveness, area, arena, art, atelier, attention,
      attentiveness, attract, awareness, bag, barbershop, basis,
      be about, be the matter, bear on, bear upon, bearing,
      beauty parlor, beauty shop, belong to, bench, beset,
      body corporate, bother, burden, business, business establishment,
      butcher shop, cankerworm of care, care, carefulness, caring,
      cartel, case, catch up in, cathexis, caution, chamber of commerce,
      chapter, charge, chord, circumspection, circumspectness, combine,
      commerce, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, complaisance,
      complicate matters, concernment, conglomerate,
      conglomerate corporation, connect, connection, consciousness,
      consequence, consequentiality, considerateness, consideration,
      consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body,
      corporation, correspond to, curiosity, deal with, delicacy,
      department of knowledge, desk, discipline, discommode, disquiet,
      disquietude, distress, disturb, disturbance,
      diversified corporation, doing, domain, doubt, draw in, dread,
      dubiety, duty, echo, embarrass, empathy, emphasis, employ,
      employment, engage, enmesh, entangle, enterprise, enthusiasm,
      essence, establishment, excellence, excite, excite interest,
      facility, faltering, fascinate, fear, fellow feeling, field,
      field of inquiry, field of study, firm, focus of attention,
      focus of interest, foreboding, forebodingness, forethought,
      frazzle, function, germaneness, gimmick, gist, give concern, gizmo,
      harass, have connection with, head, heading, heed, heedfulness,
      helpfulness, high order, high rank, holding company, house,
      identification, implicate, import, importance, incertitude,
      inconvenience, indulgence, industry, inquietude, installation,
      institution, interest, interestedness, invite, involve, involve in,
      involvement, irk, irresolution, issue, jigger, job,
      joint-stock association, joint-stock company, labor, leniency,
      liaise with, link with, living issue, loft, lookout, loving care,
      main point, malaise, mark, materiality, matter, matter in hand,
      matter of interest, meat, merit, mindfulness, misgiving, mistrust,
      moment, motif, motive, natural science, nervous strain,
      nervous tension, nervousness, note, obligingness, occasions,
      occupation, ology, operating company, organization, outfit,
      overanxiety, palaver, paramountcy, parlor, partnership, passion,
      pathos, perplex, pertain to, pertinence, perturb, perturbation,
      pins and needles, pique, plague, plunderbund, point,
      point at issue, point in question, pool, pother, precedence,
      preeminence, preparedness, primacy, priority, problem, proceeding,
      province, provoke, public utility, pucker, pure science, put out,
      put to it, puzzle, question, refer to, reference, regard,
      regardfulness, relate to, relatedness, relating, relevance,
      respect, response, responsibility, responsiveness, rubric, science,
      self-importance, service, sharing, shop, shtick, significance,
      skepticism, social science, solicitousness, solicitude,
      special interest, specialty, sphere, stew, stimulate,
      stock company, strain, stress, studio, study, subject,
      subject matter, subject of thought, substance, suck into,
      superiority, supremacy, suspense, suspicion, sweatshop,
      sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, syndicate, tact,
      tactfulness, tangle, tantalize, task, technicology, technics,
      technology, tender loving care, tension, text, theme, thing,
      thought, thoughtfulness, tickle, tie in with, titillate,
      toleration, topic, torment, touch, touch on, touch upon,
      trade association, transaction, treat of, trouble, trust,
      undertaking, unease, uneasiness, unquietness, unsettle, upset,
      utility, value, vex, vexation, vibes, vibrations, weight, widget,
      wonder, work, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse,
      working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, worry,
      worth, zeal