concur

Borrowed from Latin concurro (“to run together, agree”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəŋˈkɝ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəŋˈkɜː/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

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concur (third-person singular simple present concurs, present participle concurring, simple past and past participle concurred)

1. To agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.

   The jury concurs with the case put forward by the defence lawyer, that the defendant is undoubtedly innocent.

   I do not concur that this is the best way forward.

   We do not concur in that particular point.

2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.

   concurring plans

   concurring lines of thought

3. (obsolete) To run together; to meet.
4. (rare) To converge.

• (to unite or agree): accord, agree, coexist; See also Thesaurus:agree
• (to meet in the same point): cooperate, unite
• (to run together): assemble, congregate, crowd, flock
• (to converge):

• (antonym(s) of “to unite or agree”): disagree, dissent
• (antonym(s) of “to meet in the same point”):
• (antonym(s) of “to run together”): disperse, disassemble
• (antonym(s) of “to converge”): diverge

• concourse
• concurrence

• “concur”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “concur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.