CONCUR (concurred, concurring)

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Irregular inflected forms: concurred    , concurring   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does concur mean? 

• CONCUR (verb)
  The verb CONCUR has 2 senses:

1. be in accord; be in agreement

2. happen simultaneously

  Familiarity information: CONCUR used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCUR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they concur    ... he / she / it concurs   
Past simple: concurred   
Past participle: concurred   
-ing form: concurring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be in accord; be in agreement

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

agree; concord; concur; hold

Context example:

Both philosophers concord on this point

Verb group:

agree (achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "concur"):

settle (end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement)

conciliate; make up; patch up; reconcile; settle (come to terms)

see eye to eye (be in agreement)

concede; grant; yield (be willing to concede)

subscribe; support (adopt as a belief)

conclude; resolve (reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation)

arrange; fix up (make arrangements for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue concur
Sam wants to concur with Sue

Derivation:

concurrence (agreement of results or opinions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Happen simultaneously

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

coincide; concur

Context example:

The two events coincided

Hypernyms (to "concur" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

concurrence (the temporal property of two things happening at the same time)

concurrent (occurring or operating at the same time)

 Context examples 

"Because of the white man," Ebbits concurred.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write," Martin concurred.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"It would never do!" Matt concurred.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Apart from that, what Uriah says I quite concur in!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To concur.

(Agree, NCI Thesaurus)

What he says, I quite concur in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Peggotty gave it as her opinion that she even slept with one eye open; but I could not concur in this idea; for I tried it myself after hearing the suggestion thrown out, and found it couldn't be done.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)