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English
Etymology
From concurrent + -ly.
Adverb
concurrently (not comparable)
- In a concurrent manner; at the same time.
1934 February, H. C. Casserley, “A Veteran Midland Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 86:For the next four years Mr. Johnson continued building 2-4-0 express passenger engines, thus continuing the Kirtley practice, but from 1882 onwards he built all his express engines with the 4-4-0 or the 4-2-2 wheel arrangement, the two types being put in service concurrently between the years of 1887 and 1900.
1960 February, “The dieselised St. Pancras suburban service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:Concurrently with the St. Pancras-Bedford service, diesel trains have now taken over that between Kentish Town and Barking, on an even-interval basis at half-hourly intervals.
1986, Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai, published 1995, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:In many instances, the military was quite unable to distinguish right away between the Red Guard and Revolutionary organizations led by Maoist activists and those organized by Party officials whom Mao wished to topple, since both sides claimed to be dedicated to Mao’s policy. Furthermore, many military commanders were concurrently local administrators such as those in Tibet and Hsinchiang.
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Translations
in a concurrent manner; at the same time