concern
• verb 1 relate to; be about. 2 be relevant to; affect or involve. 3 make anxious or worried. • noun 1 worry; anxiety. 2 a matter of interest or importance. 3 a business. — PHRASES have no concern with have nothing to do with. to whom it may concern used to address a reader whose identity is unknown. — ORIGIN Latin concernere, from cernere ‘sift, discern’.
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