owing to
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B2 because of: The concert has been cancelled owing to lack of support.Connecting words which introduce a cause or reason
(Definition of owing to preposition from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- because conjunction
- because of preposition
- behalf noun
- cause conjunction
- cos conjunction
- courtesy noun
- fear noun
- for conjunction (BECAUSE)
- for preposition (BECAUSE OF)
- from preposition (CAUSE)
- in the light of sth idiom
- necessarily adverb
- on sb's account idiom
- order noun (PURPOSE)
- sake noun (REASON)
- thanks to sb/sth idiom
- through preposition (RESULT)
- what with idiom
- with a view to doing sth idiom
- with preposition (CAUSE)
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