concentrated

American  

[kon-suhn-trey-tid] / ˈkɒn sənˌtreɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. applied with all one's attention, energy, etc..

   their concentrated efforts to win the election.

2. clustered or gathered together closely.

3. treated to remove or reduce an inessential ingredient, especially liquid.

   concentrated orange juice.

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Other Word Forms

• nonconcentrated adjective
• superconcentrated adjective
• unconcentrated adjective
• unconcentratedly adverb
• well-concentrated adjective

Etymology

Origin of concentrated

First recorded in 1680–90; concentrate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

But hiring was concentrated in education and health services, a field responsible for a disproportionate share of recent U.S. job creation and which added 58,000 net jobs in March.

From The Wall Street Journal

His coach at Durham, Ryan Campbell, believes he has concentrated too much on bowling wobble-seam deliveries rather than trying to search for swing.

From BBC

Watchful for a Soviet attack from the north, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, as the country’s military is known, were for years concentrated in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four large islands.

From The Wall Street Journal

Though concentrated, it’s situated among newly refreshed spaces containing lavishly ornamented mummy coffins, carved grave stelae, canopic jars, tomb wall reliefs and the preserved body of a woman named Gautseshenu.

From The Wall Street Journal

Private-credit fund managers depend heavily on a supply of loans from private-equity buyouts, which were concentrated in software companies over the past five years.

From The Wall Street Journal

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