immediate concern

collocation in English

meaningsofimmediateandconcern

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immediate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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concern
noun
uk
/kənˈsɜːn/us
/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofimmediateandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimmediate concern

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There is little or noimmediateconcernabout creating moral consensus (except on the point that a certain compromise is morally acceptable).
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This specific response, however, is not ofimmediateconcernhere.
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The moreimmediateconcernof psychology's founders, though, was to establish its independence from philosophy and secure its status as a genuine field of science.
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These factors, together with the increasing mobility of the human population, conspire to make these environmental problems of great andimmediateconcern.
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Theirimmediateconcernwas not the entire world of nursinghome care.
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But neither does the article; itsimmediateconcernis with the children, and the enormous difficulties that they and their parents face.
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The rise in the 1920s does not conflict with the chronology of decline argued here and is therefore not ofimmediateconcern.
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Myimmediateconcernwas adjusting to teaching at a small, private liberal arts college.
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Stressing that this is an international issue of practical andimmediateconcern, she suggests that nurses have not been aggressive enough in acting as children's advocates.
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Overall the main finding ofimmediateconcernis that the primary basic colours and colour terms were coped with better than the derived colours or colour terms on all tasks.
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Henry's ultimate goal was no less far-reaching than that of the abolitionists, but hisimmediateconcernwas to do something that would benefit animals.
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Conventional wisdom has it that with significant impacts from climate change not expected for at least another 20 years, adaptation is not a matter ofimmediateconcern.
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What it has done is to quote a figure for the level of radioactivity in human bone which, if greatly exceeded, would warrantimmediateconcern.
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And the moment, as you would put it, public hysteria breaks out, there isimmediateconcernabout beef markets collapsing.
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But our exports and our balance-of-payments problems are not ofimmediateconcernto them in their own lives; they are not, therefore, newsworthy.
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Theirimmediateconcernis to strengthen the measures of fish stock conservation which currently apply there.
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Because of this, marketing is theimmediateconcernof the grower, and good marketing pays him immediate dividends.
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However, it is the threat of economic destabilisation that should be of mostimmediateconcernto us.
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Our mostimmediateconcernwas to enable those refugees to return to sheltered settlements before winter.
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I deal, first, with the most important legal problem facing newspapers, that causing the greatestimmediateconcern—the vagueness and uncertainty concerning the law of contempt.
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