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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Going \Go"ing\, p. pr. of {Go}. Specif.: (a) That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working; in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest men going; going prices or rate. (b) Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on, with an indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases
{a going business},
{concern}, etc. (c) Of or pertaining to a going business or concern; as, the going value of a company. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concern \Con*cern"\, verb (used without an object) To be of importance. [Obs.]
Which to deny concerns more than avails. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concern \Con*cern"\, noun
1. That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.
The private concerns of fanilies. --Addison.
2. That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.
Mysterious secrets of a high concern. --Roscommon.
3. Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.
O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns And gentle wishes follow me to battle. --Addison.
4. (Com.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.
{The whole concern}, all connected with a particular affair or business.
Syn: Care; anxiety; solicitude; interest; regard; business; affair; matter; moment. See {Care}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concern \Con*cern"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Concerned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concerning}.] [F. concerner, LL. concernere to regard, concern, fr. L. concernere to mix or mingle together, as in a sieve for separating; con- + cernere to separate, sift, distinguish by the senses, and especially by the eyes, to perceive, see. See {Certain}.]
1. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. --Acts xxviii. 31.
Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. --Addison.
It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. --Dodsley.
Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. --J. F. Cooper.
2. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor. --Rogers.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
concern
noun
1: something that interests you because it is important or affects you; "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern"
2: an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction" [syn: {care}, {fear}]
3: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: {business}, {business concern}, {business organization}, {business organisation}]
4: something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry" [syn: {worry}, {headache}, {vexation}]
5: a feeling of sympathy for someone or something; "She felt strong concern for those less fortunate" [ant: {unconcern}]
verb
1: have to do with or be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" [syn: {refer}, {pertain}, {relate}, {come to}, {bear on}, {touch}, {touch on}]
2: be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant" [syn: {interest}, {occupy}, {worry}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
372 Moby Thesaurus words for "concern": Aktiengesellschaft, TLC, absorb, academic discipline, academic specialty, accent, accommodatingness, activities, activity, affair, affairs, affect, affect the interest, agency, agitate, agitation, agreeableness, ail, aktiebolag, all-overs, angst, answer to, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, appertain to, applicability, application, applied science, apply to, appositeness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, area, arena, art, atelier, attention, attentiveness, attract, awareness, bag, barbershop, basis, be about, be the matter, bear on, bear upon, bearing, beauty parlor, beauty shop, belong to, bench, beset, body corporate, bother, burden, business, business establishment, butcher shop, cankerworm of care, care, carefulness, caring, cartel, case, catch up in, cathexis, caution, chamber of commerce, chapter, charge, chord, circumspection, circumspectness, combine, commerce, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, complaisance, complicate matters, concernment, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, connect, connection, consciousness, consequence, consequentiality, considerateness, consideration, consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, correspond to, curiosity, deal with, delicacy, department of knowledge, desk, discipline, discommode, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturb, disturbance, diversified corporation, doing, domain, doubt, draw in, dread, dubiety, duty, echo, embarrass, empathy, emphasis, employ, employment, engage, enmesh, entangle, enterprise, enthusiasm, essence, establishment, excellence, excite, excite interest, facility, faltering, fascinate, fear, fellow feeling, field, field of inquiry, field of study, firm, focus of attention, focus of interest, foreboding, forebodingness, forethought, frazzle, function, germaneness, gimmick, gist, give concern, gizmo, harass, have connection with, head, heading, heed, heedfulness, helpfulness, high order, high rank, holding company, house, identification, implicate, import, importance, incertitude, inconvenience, indulgence, industry, inquietude, installation, institution, interest, interestedness, invite, involve, involve in, involvement, irk, irresolution, issue, jigger, job, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, labor, leniency, liaise with, link with, living issue, loft, lookout, loving care, main point, malaise, mark, materiality, matter, matter in hand, matter of interest, meat, merit, mindfulness, misgiving, mistrust, moment, motif, motive, natural science, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, note, obligingness, occasions, occupation, ology, operating company, organization, outfit, overanxiety, palaver, paramountcy, parlor, partnership, passion, pathos, perplex, pertain to, pertinence, perturb, perturbation, pins and needles, pique, plague, plunderbund, point, point at issue, point in question, pool, pother, precedence, preeminence, preparedness, primacy, priority, problem, proceeding, province, provoke, public utility, pucker, pure science, put out, put to it, puzzle, question, refer to, reference, regard, regardfulness, relate to, relatedness, relating, relevance, respect, response, responsibility, responsiveness, rubric, science, self-importance, service, sharing, shop, shtick, significance, skepticism, social science, solicitousness, solicitude, special interest, specialty, sphere, stew, stimulate, stock company, strain, stress, studio, study, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, suck into, superiority, supremacy, suspense, suspicion, sweatshop, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, syndicate, tact, tactfulness, tangle, tantalize, task, technicology, technics, technology, tender loving care, tension, text, theme, thing, thought, thoughtfulness, tickle, tie in with, titillate, toleration, topic, torment, touch, touch on, touch upon, trade association, transaction, treat of, trouble, trust, undertaking, unease, uneasiness, unquietness, unsettle, upset, utility, value, vex, vexation, vibes, vibrations, weight, widget, wonder, work, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, worry, worth, zeal
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