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concur

UK/kənˈkɜː/US/kənˈkɝ/
verbC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,672 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: concurred, concurring, concurs

To concur is to agree with an opinion. I concur, the experts concur, concur with the finding.

It is formal and belongs to courts, committees and medicine. In American law a concurring opinion is a judge agreeing with the result but for different reasons, which sometimes matters more than the judgment itself.

Definitions of concur

  1. 1verbconcurTo agree with an opinion.C1

    “The second doctor concurred with the first and recommended surgery.”

concur is an agreeing.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    concurro — to run together, agree

  2. English, today

    concur

Borrowed from Latin concurro (“to run together, agree”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

concur in the wild

  • Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as in the case of other bills.

    Origination Clause

  • Various analysts and politicians concur that in the 2020s crime in Chile is on the rise to levels similar to the rest of Latin America.

    Crime in Chile

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the concurro family

concurconcourse

concur — used about once every 2,773 pages · #7,672 · point at the bar for the others

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