due to
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Caused by; resulting from; because of.
- Rising unemployment due to the economic downturn is spreading.
- The carrier will be held financially responsible for any damage due to reckless handling.
3 more examples
- Due to the rising cost of ingredients, the company decided to change the recipe. [disjunctive use, sometimes proscribed]
- The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.1908, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in The New York Times:
- Where else in the world can you pre-order sushi and fondue on some of the trains, travel in family carriages equipped with mini-playgrounds, or use a request stop button at some small stations? Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident in another country," as I did once at the Swiss station of Spiez?2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see due, to.
- The steamship was due to arrive in the Port of New York tomorrow.
3
Mathematics, Sciences (of a proof) from, written by
- The proof we provide is a nice indirect proof due to Euclid.
- Synonyms
- caused by, as a consequence of, as a result of, because of, thanks to, on account of