Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be of the same opinion; agree: synonym: assent.
- intransitive verb To combine in bringing something about; act together.
- intransitive verb To occur at the same time; coincide.
- intransitive verb Obsolete To converge; meet.
- intransitive verb To grant or concede.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To run together; meet in a point in space.
- To come together or be accordant, as in character, action, or opinion; agree; coincide: followed by with before the person or thing and in before the object of concurrence.
- To unite; combine; be associated: as, many causes concurred in bringing about his fall.
- Eccles., to fall on two consecutive days, as two feasts. See
concurrence , 4. - To assent: with to.
- In law, to assert, with other claimants, a claim against the estate of an insolvent.
- In English law, to unite in two or more persons the title to a single estate.
- noun In mod. geom., the straight determined by two coplanar flat pencils.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To run together; to meet.
- intransitive verb To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
- intransitive verb To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
- intransitive verb obsolete To assent; to consent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
unite oragree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; tocoincide ; tocorrespond . - verb To meet in the same point; to
combine orconjoin ; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect. - verb obsolete To run together; to
meet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be in accord; be in agreement
- verb happen simultaneously
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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This, I think most will concur, is the heart of the issue with the current Constellation architecture when it is set against the much grander vista mapped out by the original VSE.
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I am not sure what the spelling of the word concur has to do with the issue….
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Q “What are the four things wherein concur all creatures?” — “Men concur in meat and drink, the sweet of sleep, the lust of women and the agonies of death.”
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If, in computing the number of votes required, a fraction results, such fraction will be counted as one; thus, if five members are to vote, a requirement that two-thirds concur is not met unless four concur.
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He did herein concur in affection with all the saints.
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God's word concur and be annexed, from which comes life, ease, repentance, &c.
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"So I think they should know their role, their role is for them to concur and if they do not concur, that is a different matter but calling for public hearing to change what we have decided is very wrong" he stated.
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The cemetery's contracting officer "merely circled 'concur'" to indicate the cemetery's decision.
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The cemetery's contracting officer "merely circled 'concur'" to indicate the cemetery's decision.
Army finds problems with IT contracts, records system at Arlington Cemetery 2010
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The cemetery's contracting officer "merely circled 'concur'" to indicate the cemetery's decision.
Army finds problems with IT contracts, records system at Arlington Cemetery 2010
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