Usually means: Agent causing change or effect.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word causative:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. causative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. causative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. causative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. causative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. causative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Causative, causative: Wordnik
  7. causative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. causative: Wiktionary
  9. causative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. causative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. causative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. causative: Dictionary.com
  13. Causative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Causative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. causative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. causative: Rhymezone
  17. Causative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. causative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. causative: Free Dictionary
  20. causative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. causative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. causative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. causative: Legal dictionary

(Note: See causatively as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Acting as a cause.
adjective:  Involving, or affected by, causality.
adjective:  (linguistics) Expressing a cause or causation.
noun:  (linguistics) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

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