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concurrence

UK/kənˈkʌɹ.əns/US/kənˈkɝ.əns/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,663 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: concurrences

Concurrence is agreement, or the happening of things at the same time. With the concurrence of the board, a concurrence of events, seek his concurrence.

The two senses come from the same picture of running together. In law a judge's concurrence is agreement with the result, sometimes for different reasons.

Definitions of concurrence

  1. 1nounconcurrenceAgreement, or the happening of things at the same time.C2

    “The change was made with the concurrence of every member present.”

concurrence is an agreement.

Where it comes from

Latin concurrere means to run together, from com plus currere, to run.

  1. Old French

    concurrence

  2. English, today

    concurrence

From Old French concurrence.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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concurrence in the wild

  • In theory, if the actus reus does not hold concurrence in point of time with the mens rea then no crime has been committed.

    Concurrence

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.