{
    "term": "concern",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "concern",
            "heSheIt": "concerns"
        },
        "pastSimple": "concerned",
        "pastParticiple": "concerned",
        "ingForm": "concerning"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to affect somebody/something; to involve somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "concern somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't interfere in what doesn't concern you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**To whom it may concern**… *(= used for example, at the beginning of a public notice or of a job reference about somebody’s character and ability)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please pay attention because this information concerns all of you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The letter is for both of us, but it mainly concerns you."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["directly", "mainly", "mostly"],
                "preposition": ["in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be about something",
            "sensetop": "concern somethingconcern itself with something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The story concerns the prince's efforts to rescue Pamina."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book is **primarily concerned **with Soviet-American relations during the Cold War."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My question concerns the way he handles the evidence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This chapter concerns itself with the historical background.",
                    "contextForm": "concern itself with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "One major difference between these computers concerns the way in which they store information."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The issue here concerns the way in which lexis and grammar relate to each other."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The really important point concerns the effect on the worker."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["directly", "mainly", "mostly"],
                "preposition": ["in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to worry somebody",
            "sensetop": "concern somebodyit concerns somebody that…",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**What concerns me is** our lack of preparation for the change."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fair use is one issue concerning most musicians."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It concerns me that you no longer seem to care.",
                    "contextForm": "it concerns somebody that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It really concerns me that he doesn't eat properly."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["a lot", "greatly", "really"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to take an interest in something",
            "sensetop": "concern yourself with/about something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He didn't concern himself with the details."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈsɜːn/",
                "audio": "xc/concern/xconcern__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈsɜːnz/",
                "audio": "xc/concern/xconcerns__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈsɜːnd/",
                "audio": "xc/concern/xconcerned__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/",
                "audio": "xc/concern/xconcerning__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈsɜːrn/",
                "audio": "xc/concern/xconcern__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈsɜːrnz/",
                "audio": "xc/concern/xconcerns__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈsɜːrnd/",
                "audio": "xc/concern/xconcerned__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈsɜːrnɪŋ/",
                "audio": "xc/concern/xconcerning__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from French concerner or late Latin concernere (in medieval Latin ‘be relevant to’), from con- (expressing intensive force) + cernere ‘sift, discern’."
}