due to
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See also: dueto
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Preposition
- Caused by; resulting from; because of.
- Rising unemployment due to the economic downturn is spreading.
- The carrier will be held financially responsible for any damage due to reckless handling.
- Due to the rising cost of ingredients, the company decided to change the recipe. [disjunctive use, sometimes proscribed]
- 1908, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in The New York Times:
- The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see due, to.
- The steamship was due to arrive in the Port of New York tomorrow.
Usage notes
- Although usage of "due to" as a disjunctive preposition is now common, some speakers will object and recommend because of, on account of, as a result of or owing to instead, reserving due for use as an adjective only. Reliable sources (such as Oxford, M-W, etc.) acknowledge this debate, then conclude that more recently this usage of "due to" is widely, although perhaps not entirely, acceptable. Compare also the disjunctive use of based on.
- The conjunction due to the fact that, frequently encountered in business and politics, is generally rejected by style experts as being an unnecessarily wordy synonym of because.
Synonyms
- caused by, as a consequence of, as a result of, because of, thanks to, on account of
Translations
caused by
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