English > concern: 7 senses > noun 5, group| Meaning | A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it. |
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| Example | "a racially integrated business concern" |
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| Synonyms | business, business concern, business organization, business organisation |
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| Category of | shipping room | A room where goods are packaged and shipped |
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| Category | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business | The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects |
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| Members | division | An administrative unit in government or business |
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| Narrower | agency | A business that serves other businesses |
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| brokerage | The business of a broker |
| carrier, common carrier | A person or firm in the business of transporting / transporting people or goods or messages |
| chain | (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership |
| firm, house, business firm | The members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments |
| franchise, dealership | A business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area |
| manufacturer, maker, manufacturing business | A business engaged in manufacturing some product |
| partnership | The members of a business venture created by contract |
| processor | A business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market |
| shipbuilder | A business that builds and repairs ships |
| underperformer | A business that is less successful than expected |
| Broader | enterprise | An organization created for business ventures |
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| Spanish | asunto de negocios, asunto, empresa, negocio, organización comerical, organización de negocios |
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| Catalan | negoci |
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English > concern: 7 senses > verb 1, stative| Meaning | Be relevant to. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
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| Synonyms | refer, pertain, relate, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have to do with |
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| Narrower | apply, hold, go for | Be pertinent or relevant or applicable |
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| focus on, center on, revolve around, revolve about, concentrate on, center | Center upon |
| involve, affect, regard | Connect closely and often incriminatingly |
| matter to, interest | Be of importance or consequence |
| Similar to | allude, touch, advert | make a more or less disguised reference to |
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| Spanish | atañer, concernir, incumbir, palpar, referirse, referir, relatar, respectar, tocar, tratarse |
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| Catalan | concernir, incumbir, palpar, pertocar, referir-se, referir, relatar, tocar, tractar-se |
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