Usually means: Reason or justification for action.
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  1. because: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. because: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. because: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. because: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Because, Because, because, because, because, because: Wordnik
  7. because: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. because: Wiktionary
  9. because: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. because: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. because: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Because, because: Dictionary.com
  13. because: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. because: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Because (Beatles song), Because (Boyzone song), Because (Demis Roussos song), Because (Jessica Mauboy song), Because (The Beatles song), Because (The Dave Clark Five song), Because (film), Because (song), Because: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Because: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. because: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. because: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. because: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. because: Free Dictionary
  21. because: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. because: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. because: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. because: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BECAUSE: Acronym Finder
  2. because: Idioms

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  2. Because: Physic and Astronomy Glossary

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  1. because: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  For the reason (that).
▸ adverb:  On account (of), for sake (of).
▸ adverb:  (by ellipsis) Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".

Similar:
becuase, that, although, though, when, since, unless, however, therefore, reason, more...

Opposite:
despite, notwithstanding, yet, however, instead

Types:
causal, consequential, logical, hypothetical, factual, more...

Phrases:
because of, just because, for because, common because of vicinage, Because This Is My First Life, more...

Adjectives:
forgiveness, all, why, pregnancy, right, interesting, wicked, first


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Similar:
becuase, that, although, though, when, since, unless, however, therefore, reason, more...

Opposite:
despite, notwithstanding, yet, however, instead

Types:
causal, consequential, logical, hypothetical, factual, more...

Phrases:
because of, just because, for because, common because of vicinage, Because This Is My First Life, Because the Night, Because the Internet, Because You Loved Me, Because I could not stop for Death, more...

Adjectives:
forgiveness, all, why, pregnancy, right, interesting, wicked, first



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