cause: Meaning and Definition of

cause

1. a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
2. the reason or motive for some human action: The good news was a cause for rejoicing.
3. good or sufficient reason: to complain without cause; to be dismissed for cause.
1. a ground of legal action; the matter over which a person goes to law.
2. a case for judicial decision.
5. any subject of discussion or debate.
6. a principle, ideal, goal, or movement to which a person or group is dedicated: the Socialist cause; the human rights cause.
7. the welfare of a person or group, seen as a subject of concern: support for the cause of the American Indian.
1. the end or purpose for which a thing is done or produced.
2. Aristotelianism.any of the four things necessary for the movement or the coming into being of a thing, namely a material(material cause),something to act upon it(efficient cause),a form taken by the movement or development(formal cause),and a goal or purpose(final cause).
9. to unite in a joint effort; work together for the same end: They made common cause with neighboring countries and succeeded in reducing tariffs.

1. to be the cause of; bring about.

'cause

1. because.