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  1. adjective Happening at the same time as something else. See Synonyms at contemporary.
  2. adjective Operating or acting in conjunction with another.
  3. adjective Meeting or tending to meet at the same point; convergent.
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  • The cumulate objectives of these measures -- concurrent engagement and subversion -- should be to foster in North Korea what the Eastern European thinkers of the 1970s described as the
  • An appeals court in March 2008 said federal authorities have concurrent, or shared, jurisdiction with the state.
  • As for the third list (concurrent), here the center and the states shared responsibility. —  United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
  • However, many more items were placed exclusively under the union than under states; and more were placed under "concurrent" than the states wanted. —  United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
  • Under normal circumstances, the executive branch serves a four-year term concurrent with that of the Council of Representatives.
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Latin concurrēns, concurrent-, present participle of concurrere, to coincide; see concur.

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  1. = French concurrent, n., = Spanish concurrente = Portuguese Italian concorrente, from Latin concurren(t-)s, present participle of concurrere, run together, concur: see concur.
 

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