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owing to

Translation

prep
debido a
Owing to the rain, we were unable to play tennis
No pudimos jugar al tenis debido a la lluvia
(Definition of owing to prep from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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