MEANING
1. Agree with another person or share the same opinion or judgment.
2. Happen at the same time as another event or circumstance.
Use it for
expressing agreement with an interpretation; reporting agreement among evaluators; distinguishing shared judgment from independently corroborated evidenceMarks agreement without claiming independent verification, and separately describes concurrent occurrence. Academic functions: Argumentation, Causation / Relationships.
Words that belong together
- concur with the assessment
- concur that
- concur in the conclusion
On the page
The reviewers concur that the comparison is useful, although they differ over its theoretical implications.
The economist concurs with the estimate only after examining the assumptions used to produce it.
Several adverse circumstances concurred during the transition, complicating attempts to isolate one cause.
The review asks whether the two developments merely concurred or were linked through an identifiable mechanism.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- concur
- Past tense
- concurred
- Past participle
- concurred
- Present participle
- concurring
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- concur
- Present continuous
- am/is/are concurring
- Present perfect
- have/has concurred
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been concurring
- Past
- concurred
- Past continuous
- was/were concurring
- Past perfect
- had concurred
- Past perfect continuous
- had been concurring
- Future
- will concur
- Future continuous
- will be concurring
- Future perfect
- will have concurred
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been concurring
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Usually intransitive: concur with someone, concur in a decision, concur that. Third-person concurs; past and past participle concurred; present participle concurring. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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