What is the meaning of concerned?

verb

adjective

  • Feeling or showing worry or solicitude.
    • usage: "concerned parents of youthful offenders"; "was concerned about the future"; "we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"; "greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child"
  • Involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in.
    • usage: "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business"
  • Culpably involved.
    • usage: "all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified"; "named three officials implicated in the plot"; "an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime"
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