brief vs concern

brief

noun
  • A position of interest or advocacy. 

  • An answer to any action. 

  • A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate. 

  • An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court. 

  • A short news story or report. 

  • A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case. 

  • The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who is counsel for the case. 

  • A ticket of any type. 

  • A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose. 

  • A barrister who is counsel for a party in a legal action. 

  • underwear briefs. 

adj
  • Of short duration; happening quickly. 

  • Concise; taking few words. 

  • Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short. 

verb
  • To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power. 

  • To write a legal argument and submit it to a court. 

concern

noun
  • The placement of interest or worry on a subject. 

  • The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person. 

  • That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. 

  • A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem. 

  • A business, firm or enterprise; a company. 

  • Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program. 

verb
  • To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest. 

  • To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. 

  • To make somebody worried. 

How often have the words brief and concern occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )