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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin concurro (“to run together, agree”).
Pronunciation
Verb
concur (third-person singular simple present concurs, present participle concurring, simple past and past participle concurred)
- To agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
The jury concurs with the case put forward by the defence lawyer, that the defendant is undoubtedly innocent.
I do not concur that this is the best way forward.
We do not concur in that particular point.
- To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
concurring plans
concurring lines of thought
- (obsolete) To run together; to meet.
- (rare) To converge.
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Translations
To unite or agree
- Bulgarian: съответствувам (bg) (sǎotvetstvuvam), съгласувам се (sǎglasuvam se)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 同意 (zh) (tóngyì)
- Esperanto: samopinii
- Finnish: olla samaa mieltä, yhtyä (fi)
- French: être d’accord (fr)
- German: übereinstimmen (de), zustimmen (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌵𐌹𐌸𐌰𐌽 (gaqiþan)
- Icelandic: vera sammála, samsinna
- Maori: whakakoia, whakakoikoia, whakaae tahi
- Norwegian: være enige om
- Polish: zgadzać się (pl)
- Russian: соглаша́ться (ru) (soglašátʹsja), совпада́ть (ru) (sovpadátʹ)
- Slovak: zhodnúť sa, súhlasiť
- Spanish: estar de acuerdo, acordar (es), concurrir (es)
- Swedish: hålla med (sv) (om), instämma (sv)
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To meet in the same point
References
- “concur”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “concur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.