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Pronunciation
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Meanings
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Because of, on account of.
"Owing to the ongoing conflict, all rail services are subject to change on a short notice," warns the European Rail Timetable at the end of its short entry on the general state of Ukraine's railways.
2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 49:Owing to the TB I connected breathing with joy, and owing to the gloom of the ward I connected joy with light, and owing to my irrationality I related light on the walls to light inside me.
1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 62:I gave up my job as a typist owing to repetitive strain injury.
It’s all owing to your precious caution that they got hold of it. If you had let me burn it, and taken my word that it was gone, it would have been a heap of ashes behind the fire, instead of being whole and sound, inside of my great-coat.
1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
Synonyms
as a result of · due to · as a consequence of · because of · on account of · thanks to
Translations (26)
es por mor de (because of) · pl ze względu na (because of) · et pärast (because of) · bg вследствие на (because of) · cmn 由於 /由于 (because of) · et tänu (because of) · da grundet (because of) · fi takia (because of) · et tõttu (because of) · de aufgrund (because of) · kmr ji ber (because of) · ar بِسَبَبّ (because of) · pt devido a (because of) · lo ເນື່ອງຈາກ (because of) · pl dzięki (because of) · pl wskutek (because of) · fi vuoksi (because of) · de wegen (because of) · nb på grunn av (because of) · sv på grund av (because of) · fi johdosta (because of) · nn på grunn av (because of) · fr en raison de (because of) · az ucbatından (because of) · fi ansiosta (because of) · arz بسبب (because of)