concurrence

From Old French concurrence.

concurrence (countable and uncountable, plural concurrences)

1. Agreement; concurring.
3. 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.

• concur

• “concurrence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ky.ʁɑ̃s/

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From concurrent +‎ -ence.

concurrence f (plural concurrences)

1. competition (action of competing)

   La concurrence dans ce secteur est particulièrement féroce.

   The competition in this sector is particularly fierce.

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

• → Albanian: konkurrencë

concurrence

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

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