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Concur

Definition: Concur

Concur

Verb

1. Be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those you say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point".

2. Happen simultaneously; "The two events coincided".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "concur" was first used: 1410. (references)

Note: Concur \Con*cur"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Concurred; present participle verb or noun Concurring.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Concur

DomainDefinition

Computing

CONCUR ["CONCUR, A Language for Continuous Concurrent Processes", R.M. Salter et al, Comp Langs 5(3):163-189 (1981)]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Concur

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CONCUR

EnglishConcurrent Design and Engineering in Building and Civil EngineeringN/A
CONCUR 2EnglishCalculi and Algebras of Concurrency:Extensions,Tools and ApplicationsComputing, European Union

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Concur

Synonyms: agree (v), coincide (v), concord (v), hold (v). (additional references)
Antonym: disagree (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Concur

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Assent

Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.

Concurrence

Verb: concur, conduce, conspire, contribute; agree, unite; hang together, pull together, join forces, make common cause.

Convergence

Verb: converge, concur, come together, unite, meet, fall in with; close with, close in upon; center round, center in; enter in; pour in.

Cooperation

Verb: cooperate, concur; coact, synergize.

Synchronism

Verb: coexist, concur, accompany, go hand in hand, keep pace with; synchronize.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Concur

English words defined with "concur": Comprobate, Concurred, CondogNonconcur, NonconcurrenceoverlapTo fall in with, To make with, To say amen to. (references)
Specialty definitions using "concur": Lemonade. (references)
Etymologies containing "concur": Current. (references)

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Modern Usage: Concur

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Lazar? Hmm, possible Yes! I concur. (The Man with the Golden Gun; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Concur

DomainTitle

References

  • Concur Technologies, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Concur 2000 Concurrency Theory (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1877) (reference)

  • Concur 2001 - Concurrency Theory: 12th International Conference Aalborg, Denmark, August 20-25, 2001: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial intel (reference)

  • Concur 2002-Concurrency Theory: 13th International Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, August 20-23, 2002 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer scienc (reference)

  • Concur '95 Concurrency Theory: 6th International Conference, Philadelphia, Pa, August 21-24, 1995, Proceedings (reference)

  • Concur '96: Concurrency Theory: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, Pisa, Italy, August 26-29, 1996 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: Concur

AuthorDateQuotation

US Constitution

1791

Clause 1: All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Concur

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These parts of the guidelines concur with the recommendation by a 1991 National Institutes of Health workshop that chronic fatigue cases preceded by some, but not all, psychiatric syndromes can be classified as the chronic fatigue syndrome. (references)

The Navajo Indians, a number of whom contracted HPS during the 1993 outbreak, recognize a similar disease in their medical traditions, and actually associate its occurrence with mice. As strikingly, Navajo medical beliefs concur with public health recommendations for preventing the disease. (references)

Business

As a result, a market for e-business services and e-commerce applications is rapidly developing and all trade sources concur that it will boom in the next two years. (references)

NCCI is owned by a number of parastatal organizations including the Public Investment Fund at 50 percent, the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) at 25 percent, and the balance is owned by the Retirement Pension Fund. Industry sources concur that NCCI dominates the Saudi health care insurance market, accounting for 30 percent of that market through its "TAJ" health care program. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

In the decision-making committee, the technical representative (typically an engineer) must concur in the award decision. (references)

Germany

The necessity for the Bundesrat to concur on legislation is limited to bills treating revenue shared by federal and state governments and those imposing responsibilities on the states. (references)

Italy

Electronic commerce applications have taken off and, although they are still in their early stages, all trade sources concur that they will experience exceptional growth in the next two years. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

Although there were new procedures announced in 2000 for ISA detention, which included amendments that senior police officials must concur with ISA detentions, by year's end the procedures were not implemented. (references)

Singapore

The President may concur with the advisory board's recommendation that a detainee be released prior to the expiration of the detention order but is not obligated to do so. No one was detained under the ISA from 1989 through 1996. Two persons were detained in 1997, and four in 1998, all for alleged espionage. (references)

Political Rights

South Africa

The NCOP, created to give a greater voice to provincial interests, is required to approve legislation that involves shared national and provincial competencies according to a schedule in the Constitution and to concur on other legislation. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

The Export Control Administration under the Ministry of Economy has responsibility for the issuance of export licenses; however, other relevant ministries concerned with the goods must also concur in the issuance. (references)

Colombia

The measure was taken to avoid an exchange rate imbalance that could have resulted from an influx of US dollars from the $2 billion purchase by Spanish company ENDESA in September of that year of a subsidiary of the Bogota Energy Co. While some authorized analysts say that this was a first step towards the dollarization of the Colombian economy, most concur that it was a necessary step to avoid a sudden imbalance in the exchange rate. (references)

Worker Rights

Ghana

All published studies and reports concur that the majority of child labor is engaged in the informal and agricultural sectors, which the inspectors do not monitor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Concur

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Should you concur in the provisions of arms and armed vessels recommended by the circumstances of the times, this surplus will furnish the means of doing so.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837I concur with him entirely in the view he has taken on the subject, and some months before the removal I urged upon the Department the propriety of taking that step.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Concur

"Concur" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 64.42% of the time. "Concur" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)64.42%6740,952
Lexical Verb (base form)34.62%3657,479
Noun (singular)0.96%1339,140
                    Total100.00%104N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Concur

CountryName
USA

Concur Technologies, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Concur

Expressions using "concur": concur smb. in smth. concur with in concur with. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "concur": non-concur.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Concur

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

concur

109

concur technology

25

concur expense

9

central concur

4

concur workplace

3

command concur

2

concur tech

2
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Modern Translation: Concur

Language Translations for "concur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pajtohem (abide, accord, be reconciled, chime, coincide, comply, comport oneself, conform, cotton, do with, eat humble pie, fall in with, lump it, make friends, make it up, make one's peace with, make up, moderate, put up with, subscribe), jam i një mendjeje. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تزامن (coincide, coincidence, concurrence, synchronization, synchronize), ‏تعاون (club up, collaborate, collaboration, communion, conspire, cooperate, cooperation, cope, get together, joining, participate, pull together, team up, unite, work for smth.), ‏إلتقى (converge, get together, meet, reunite), ‏إتفق (agree, bargain, be through with, close, come to an agreement, compound, concert, fall in with, jibe, pact). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съгласувам се (agree, comport, coordinate), съгласявам се (accede to, acquiesce, agree, assent, buy, comply, consent, grant, jibe, say the word, see, yield), съвпадам (clash, dovetail, register, tally, work in), съответствувам (accord, agree, correspond, fit, match, parallel, piece on, quadrate), съдействувам (abet, aid, co operate, collaborate, conduce, help up, minister, play, promote). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

同意 (Accede, Acceded, Acceding, Agree, Agreed, Agreeing, Assent, Assented, Assenting, Concurred, Concurring, Consent, Consented, Consenting). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyskytnout se souèasnì, shodovat se (agree, coincide, comport, tally), sbíhat se (converge), probíhat souèasnì. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

موافقت کردن (Accede, Acquiesce, Admit, Agree, Assent, Comply, Grant, Jibe, Obey, Okay), هم رای بودن , دمسازشدن (Sort). (various references)

   

French

  

convenir (coincide), concorder (coincide, conform, correspond), se collaborer, être d'accord (consent). (various references)

   

German

  

übereinstimmen (accord, agree, be congruent, coincide, come to an agreement, conform, correspond, harmonize, jibe, link together, link up, match, tally, to concur, to conform). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συναίνω (accede, acquiesce, assent, consent), συντρέχω (subserve, succor, succour), συμβάλλω (conduce to, contribute, cooperate), συμπίπτω (coincide, overlap). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megegyezik (accede, agree, clinch, come to an agreement, comport, compound, to accord, to agree, to covenant, to equal, to gibe, to parallel, to tally, to unite), egyetért (agree, at one, go along with, say the word, to accommodate, to agree, to chime in with, to chime together, to concur, to consort with, to gibe, to harmonize, to unite), egybeesik (overlap, to concur, to overlap, to register). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

setuju (acc, agree, aye, bargain, pro). (various references)

   

Italian

  

contribuire (conduce, contribute), concorrere (compete, contribute, share in, take part in, to compete), concordare (accede, accord, agree, arrange, check, check out, coincide, conform, consent, make agree, reconcile, settle), essere d'accordo (agree, consent, sympathise, sympathize), accordarsi (agree, arrange, come to an agreement, hold with, match, Square). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

軌'一にする (to be the same, to concur, to have the same way of doing). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

き'いつにする (to be the same, to concur, to have the same way of doing). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

일치하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

taghyrt ry-cheilley, co-roie (concurrence), co-obbraghey (collaborate, collaboration, collusion, co-operate). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

stemme overens. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oncurcay

   

Portuguese

  

cooperar (combine, co-operate), contribuir (add to, contribute, minister, pitch in, redound, subscribe), concorrer (apply for, compete, rival, tender), concordar (accede, accept, accord, adhere, agree, approbate, assent, assort, bring into agreement, chime, close, cohere, comply, consent, correspond, cotton, covenant, emboss, let, own, subscribe, yes), coincidir (agree, coincide, overlap). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

contribui (club, contribute, go far to, minister to, redound), colabora la, coincide (check, coincide, dovetail, tally), se produce simultan. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

совпадать (check with, coincide, contemporize, jump with, match). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

slagati se (accord, agree, approve, hit it off, jibe, match, string along, subscribe), podudarati se (coincide, tally). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

convenir (agree, answer, arrange, be appropriate, be fitting, be suitable, befit, do, fall in, suit), concurrir (come together, compete, forgather, meet), coincidir (agree, coincide). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sammanträffa (coincide, meet), medverka (assist, co operate, contribute, cooperate, co-operate, take part), instämma (admit, assent, chime in, cite, go along, summon). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyuşmak (agree, align oneself with, become numb, click, dovetail, fall in with, get along, get along with, go to sleep, jibe, lull, mix, run in with, sort together, square with, suit, tone, understand each other), rastlamak (alight, alight on, blunder on, coincide, come across, come on, come upon, encounter, fall in with, fall on, fall with, find, hap, happen, light, light upon, meet, meet by chance, run across, run against, run up against smb., stumble across, stumble on, stumble upon), kesişmek (cross, cut, intersect), hemfikir olmak (agree, agree with, be of one mind), elbirliği yapmak, aynı anda olmak (synchronize). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

збігатися (coincide, consist, jibe, shrink), погоджуватися (accede, accept, admit, allow, comply, concede, consent, give in, grant, hold with, homologate), діяти спільно (cahoot, conspire). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cyd-fynd (agree, go with). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Concur

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

concurrere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Concur

Derivations

Words beginning with "concur": concurred, concurrence, concurrences, concurrencies, concurrency, concurrent, concurrently, concurrents, concurring, concurs. (additional references)

Words ending with "concur": nonconcur. (additional references)

Words containing "concur": nonconcurred, nonconcurrence, nonconcurrences, nonconcurrent, nonconcurring, nonconcurs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Concur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonacure, cancor, cincus, Cloncore, Cloncurry, cocorp, concat, concer, concol, concom, concor, concour, concu, concure, concurr, concurve, condur, confu, confur, congur, conjur, conjux, connu, conqur, Conquy, consour, conur, Kontur, Monzur. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Concur"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "concur" (pronounced kunker")
3-n k er"incur.

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Anagrams: Concur

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-n-o-r-u"

-1 letter: cornu, occur.

-2 letters: corn, croc, curn, unco.

-3 letters: con, cor, cur, nor, orc, our, roc, run, urn.

-4 letters: no, nu, on, or, un.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-n-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: concurs.

 

+2 letters: conducer.

 

+3 letters: cancerous, chancrous, concluder, concourse, concurred, conducers, conductor, construct, coruscant, councilor, crouching, nonchurch, nonconcur, occurrent, occurring, succoring, uncoerced, unconcern.

 

+4 letters: accoutring, buccinator, concluders, conclusory, concourses, concurrent, concurring, conductors, congruence, congruency, conjecture, constructs, cornucopia, corpulence, corpulency, councillor, councilors, counteract, countercry, cowpuncher, inculcator, nonaccrual, nonconcurs, occurrence, occurrents, succouring, uncoercive, unconcerns.

 

+5 letters: accoutering, backcountry, buccinators, cancerously, churchgoing, churchwoman, churchwomen, circulation, coculturing, coinsurance, concurrence, concurrency, concurrents, conductress, congruences, conjectural, conjectured, conjecturer, conjectures, conjuncture, constructed, constructor, contractual, contracture, coproducing, cornucopian, cornucopias, corpulences, coruscating, coruscation, cotransduce, councillors, counteracts, countercoup, cowpunchers, crucifixion, cupronickel, deconstruct, inculcators, macronuclei, micronuclei, noncircular, obscurantic, occurrences, pococurante, reconstruct, reoccupying, reoccurring, subcontract, ulcerogenic, unconcerned, uncorrected.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Speeches
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Company Usage
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Abbreviations
16. Acronyms
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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