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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cause /kɔz/USA pronunciation n., v., caused, caus•ing. n. - [countable] a person that acts or a thing that occurs so as to produce a specific result: What was the cause of the accident?
- [uncountable] the reason or motive for some action: to complain without cause.
- Sociology[countable] a principle, ideal, goal, or movement to which a person or group is dedicated: the Socialist cause.
v. - to be the cause of;
bring about: [~ + object]What caused the accident?[~ + object + object]My error caused me a lot of trouble.[~ + object + to + verb]What caused him to get so excited?
'cause /kɔz, kʌz, unstressed kəz/USA pronunciation conj. Informal.- Informal Termsbecause:Don't leave, 'cause we'll be sad if you go.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cause (kôz),USA pronunciation n., v., caused, caus•ing. n. - a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result;
the producer of an effect:You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident? - the reason or motive for some human action:The good news was a cause for rejoicing.
- good or sufficient reason:to complain without cause; to be dismissed for cause.
- Law
- Lawa ground of legal action;
the matter over which a person goes to law. - a case for judicial decision.
- any subject of discussion or debate.
- Sociologya principle, ideal, goal, or movement to which a person or group is dedicated:the Socialist cause; the human rights cause.
- the welfare of a person or group, seen as a subject of concern:support for the cause of the American Indian.
- Philosophy
- the end or purpose for which a thing is done or produced.
- [Aristotelianism.]any of the four things necessary for the movement or the coming into being of a thing, namely a material (material cause,) something to act upon it (efficient cause,) a form taken by the movement or development (formal cause,) and a goal or purpose (final cause.)
- Idioms make common cause, to unite in a joint effort;
work together for the same end:They made common cause with neighboring countries and succeeded in reducing tariffs.
v.t. - to be the cause of;
bring about.
- Latin causa reason, sake, case
- Middle English 1175–1225
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Cause, occasion refer to the starting of effects into motion. A cause is an agency, perhaps acting through a long time, or a long-standing situation, that produces an effect:The cause of the quarrel between the two men was jealousy.An occasion is an event that provides an opportunity for the effect to become evident, or perhaps promotes its becoming evident:The occasion was the fact that one man's wages were increased.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See reason.
- 10.See corresponding entry in Unabridged effect, make, create, produce.
'cause (kôz, kuz, unstressed kəz),USA pronunciation conj. [Informal.]- Informal Termsbecause.
- 1400–50; late Middle English; aphetic variant
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