legitimate concern

collocation in English

meaningsoflegitimateandconcern

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legitimate
adjective
uk
/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us
/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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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 oflegitimateandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegitimate concern

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Two considerations may help to blunt any such criticism even if they do not remove alllegitimateconcern.
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They accused the radicals of meddling in delicate matters beyond theirlegitimateconcern.
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In some cases, their outrage may be fueled as much by injured entitlement as it is bylegitimateconcernfor patients in the managed-care environment.
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The observation of signs and seasons was thelegitimateconcernof the mariner and the farmer as well as the cleric, he admits.
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Regrettably, theirlegitimateconcernabout overmobilization has discouraged bioethicists from questioning the noticeable absence of war rhetoric for some kinds of medical quests.
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Somelegitimateconcernpertains to the ages of workhouse inmates, who may have had an incentive to overstate their age in order to obtain a better diet or other privileges.
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There is a serious andlegitimateconcernthat, as the normalisation of the situation advances, we tend to consign to oblivion even such things that cannot be forgotten.
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In the new thinking, human rights and democratisation were seen as the basis for world peace and security, and therefore as thelegitimateconcernof the international community.
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It may help if the interviewer is a nurse, and the line of enquiry is seen as alegitimateconcernand the interviewer is perceived as benevolent and non-judgemental.
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Spencer's principle of justice indicated that a poor law was unjust: relief of the poor was a matter for private beneficence, not alegitimateconcernof government.
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I hope that ourlegitimateconcernwith our own welfare will not blind us to this stark reality.
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We might have been able to agree to the original text insofar as it was informed by alegitimateconcernto update current legislation.
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There is alsolegitimateconcernabout the standard of drivers.
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They also expressed theirlegitimateconcernthat the terminal should continue to function as a terminal.
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It is a matter oflegitimateconcernto the community as a whole.
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Having said that, we recognise that this is a matter oflegitimateconcernto the shipping interests.
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He has a sincere andlegitimateconcernfor their future.
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Anyone who has seen the programme content in other countries on cable must have alegitimateconcernabout the material put out.
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I reiterate that there will be cases at the margin that may give rise tolegitimateconcern.
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It is surely thelegitimateconcernof all of us that we should safeguard the interests of those people.
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