concurrence

See also: concurrencé

English

Etymology

From Old French concurrence.

Noun

concurrence (countable and uncountable, plural concurrences)

1. Agreement; concurring.
2. 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;...

Related terms

• concur

Translations

agreement

• Bulgarian: съгласуване (bg) (sǎglasuvane)
• Finnish: sopimus (fi)
• German: Übereinstimmung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍃 f (samaqiss)
• Greek: σύμπτωση απόψεων (sýmptosi apópseon)
• Japanese: 賛成 (ja) (sansei)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: یەککەوتن‎ (yekkewtin)

• Polish: zgoda (pl) f
• Portuguese: concordância (pt) f
• Spanish: concurrencia (es) f
• Swedish: instämmande (sv) n
• Turkish: bağdaşma (tr), mutabakat (tr) (obsolescent)

instance of simultaneous occurrence

• Bulgarian: съвпадение (bg) n (sǎvpadenie)
• Finnish: samanaikaisuus (fi)
• German: Gleichzeitigkeit (de) f
• Greek: σύμπτωση (el) f (sýmptosi)
• Portuguese: concorrência (pt) f
• Turkish: eş zamanlılık

References

• “concurrence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ky.ʁɑ̃s/

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Etymology 1

From concurrent +‎ -ence.

Noun

concurrence f (plural concurrences)

1. competition (action of competing)
2. concurrence (instance of simultaneous occurrence)
3. the ensemble of competing business rivals. I.e., the competition.

Derived terms

• à concurrence de
• concurrence déloyale
• concurrencer

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: konkurrencë

Etymology 2

Verb

concurrence

1. inflection of concurrencer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “concurrence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.