concern
Usage
What are other ways to say concern?
Concern implies an anxious sense of interest in something: concern over a friend's misfortune. Care suggests a heaviness of spirit caused by dread, or by the constant pressure of burdensome demands: Poverty weighs a person down with care. Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market.Example Sentences
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That means jamming, a nuisance elsewhere, becomes a serious safety concern.
Another couple who were concerned that their boat may also fall into the hole walked through a muddy field in the dark for more than an hour to reach fire crews, the post said.
From BBC
In the northwest, the biggest security concern is that from criminal gangs known as bandits.
From Barron's
Dushanbe is also concerned about the presence in Afghanistan of members of the jihadist organization Islamic State in Khorasan.
From Barron's
But one tour group’s dream is a tour group leader’s safety concern, so they traced the edge of the blimp’s swing radius, staying out of reach of the resting giant.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
