adjective · academic
concurrent
/kənˈkʌrənt/con·CUR·rent
Band 5-6task2speaking
happening or existing at the same time
Examples
“There were several concurrent sessions at the conference.”
“The two events are concurrent, so I can’t attend both.”
“The project ran concurrent with other initiatives.”
Band 8 sentence
“Several concurrent trials were run to compare the efficacy of the new treatment.”
Collocations
- concurrent events
- concurrent with
- concurrent sessions
Word family
concurrently adverbconcurrence noun
Common mistakes
concurrent to→concurrent with
simultaneously→concurrent
Say it for a higher band
5at the same time→6simultaneous→7+concurrent
Synonyms
simultaneous
Easily confused
simultaneous
“The two experiments were conducted simultaneously.”
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