concerns
Syllables: con·cernsUK/kənˈsɜːnz//kənˈsɝnz/
concerns is the plural of concern.
concerns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of concern.
Meaning of concern
Noun
concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- Mark’s health was of great concern to Connie.
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- Most people in Australia have no concern for the recent events in London.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about the document.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- Judy's eyes filled with concern as she listened to the news report.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- The employees’ attitude is really hurting the concern.
- Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148
Phrases with concerns
Questions about concerns
- What is concerns the plural of?
- Concerns is the plural of concern.
- How do you pronounce concerns?
- Concerns is pronounced /kənˈsɝnz/ (US).
Words near concerns in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: concerns (page history and authors); concern (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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