Usually means: Primary reason something legally happens.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. proximate cause: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proximate cause: Wordnik
  3. proximate cause: Wiktionary
  4. proximate cause: Dictionary.com
  5. Proximate cause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. proximate cause: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Proximate cause: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. proximate cause: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. proximate cause: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. proximate cause: Legal dictionary
  7. proximate cause: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Proximate cause: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. proximate cause: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. proximate cause: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proximate cause: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (proximate cause)

noun:  (law) An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.

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