Usually means: Origin or reason something happens.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. caused: Merriam-Webster
  2. caused: Collins English Dictionary
  3. caused: Vocabulary.com
  4. Caused, caused: Wordnik
  5. caused: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. caused: Wiktionary
  7. caused: Dictionary.com
  8. caused: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Caused: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Caused: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Caused: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. caused: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. caused: FreeDictionary.org
  14. caused: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. caused: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. caused: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caused: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caused: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caused: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cause)

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; to bring about; to produce.
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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