concurrence
See also: concurrencé
English
Etymology
From Old French concurrence.
Noun
concurrence (countable and uncountable, plural concurrences)
- Agreement; concurring.
- An instance of simultaneous occurrence.
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 11:
- The time came when they ceased to cry and began to think; by the way, if Georgiana had not, from a concurrence of circumstances, been enabled to eat her breakfast, this operation of the mind could not have been engaged in without further injury, for she was, indeed, weak and exhausted;...
- 1862, John Hill Burton, The Book-hunter, etc., Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, Advertisement:
- This book owes its existence to a concurrence of accidents.
Related terms
Translations
agreement
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instance of simultaneous occurrence
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References
- “concurrence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ky.ʁɑ̃s/
Audio (file)
Etymology 1
From concurrent + -ence.
Noun
concurrence f (plural concurrences)
- competition (action of competing)
- concurrence (instance of simultaneous occurrence)
- the ensemble of competing business rivals. I.e., the competition.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: konkurrencë
Verb
concurrence
- inflection of concurrencer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “concurrence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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