Usually means: Origin or reason for something.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. 'cause, cause: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cause: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cause: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cause: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cause: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cause, cause: Wordnik
  7. cause: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. 'cause, cause: Wiktionary
  9. cause: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cause: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cause: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. 'cause, cause: Dictionary.com
  13. cause (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cause: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cause (Algeria), Cause (disambiguation), Cause (medicine), Cause, The Cause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cause: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cause: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cause: Rhymezone
  19. cause, cause (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cause: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cause: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. cause: Free Dictionary
  23. cause: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cause: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. cause: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. cause: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. cause: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. cause: Legal dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cause: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. cause: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CAUSE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. cause: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cause: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cause, the cause: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
noun:  (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason.
noun:  (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
noun:  (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
noun:  (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
verb:  (transitive) To set off an event or action.
verb:  (ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
verb:  (obsolete) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

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