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concert [ con·cert ]

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ˈkɑːnsərt ]
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UK
ˈkɒnsət ]
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Noun

1. A musical performance given in public, typically by several performers or of several compositions.

Symphony concerts have fallen off the map of cultured people's consciousness.

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2. Relating to or denoting the performance of music written for opera, ballet, or theatre on its own without the accompanying dramatic action.

Ballet and concert dancers are at the low end of the pay scale.

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3. Agreement or harmony.

Tristen's body and mind, forged like fine steel through countless decades of combats real and exercised, worked in harmonic concert.

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4. Joint action, especially in the committing of a crime.

We submit that at the very highest it was concert to manslaughter.

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Verb

1. Arrange (something) by mutual agreement or coordination.

Both Salandra and Sonnino in 1915 and Mussolini in 1940 believed it possible to fight a ‘parallel war’ without concerting strategy with their allies.

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Origin

1. Late 16th century (in the sense ‘unite’): from French concerter, from Italian concertare ‘harmonize’. The noun use, dating from the early 17th century (in the sense ‘a combination of voices or sounds’), is from French concert, from Italian concerto, from concertare.

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