Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To be of the same opinion; agree: concurred on the issue of preventing crime. See Synonyms at assent.
- v. To act together; cooperate.
- v. To occur at the same time; coincide: icy sleet that concurred with a forceful wind.
- v. Obsolete To converge; meet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. In mod. geom., the straight determined by two coplanar flat pencils.
Wiktionary
- v. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
- v. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
- v. To run together; to meet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To run together; to meet.
- v. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
- v. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
- v. To assent; to consent.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be in accord; be in agreement
- v. happen simultaneously
Etymologies
- Middle English concurren, from Latin concurrere, to meet, coincide : com-, com- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“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.”
“I am not sure what the spelling of the word concur has to do with the issue….”
“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.””
“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.”
“He did herein concur in affection with all the saints.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“God's word concur and be annexed, from which comes life, ease, repentance, &c.”
“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.”
“The cemetery's contracting officer "merely circled 'concur'" to indicate the cemetery's decision.”
The Washington Post: Army finds problems with IT contracts, records system at Arlington Cemetery
“It is a distant descendant of the old IBM (or was it GE?) culture that used "concur" and "dis-concur" as part of its decision-making process.”
Charles H. Green: Mini Madoff Scandal Scales New Linguistic Heights
“Rep. Pelosi was obliged to do much more than "concur," after the fact and off-the-record, with a protest of illegal behavior.”
Senator William Blount Was Impeached, Impeach Pelosi for Complicity in War Crimes
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