Conduce vs Concur - What's the difference?
conduce | concur |
To contribute or lead to a specific result.
* Macaulay
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* 2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 343:
To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
(obsolete) To run together; to meet.
As verbs the difference between conduce and concur
is that conduce is to contribute or lead to a specific result while concur is to unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.conduce
English
Verb
(conduc)- He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both.
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- There was thus a strong tendency to assume that obedience to God's commandments could conduce to prosperity and safety.
- Anecdotes aside, many historians are skeptical that trade, as a general rule, conduces to peace.