Because

Word BECAUSE
Character 7
Hyphenation be cause
Pronunciations /bɪˈkɒz/

Definitions and meanings of "Because"

What do we mean by because?

For the reason that; since. conjunction

By reason (of); on account (of): followed by of.

For the sake (of); in order (to).

For the reason (that); since.

To the end that; in order that.

Synonyms See since.

By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. conjunction

In order that; that. conjunction

By reason of, on account of. conjunction

For the reason (that). adverb

On account (of), for sake (of). adverb

Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", often taken as an ellipsis of "Because I said so". adverb

By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. conjunction

As known because; as inferred because; as determined because. conjunction

For the reason (that).

On account (of), for sake (of).

(by ellipsis) Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".

Synonyms and Antonyms for Because

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The word "because" in example sentences

INSKEEP: Was that because studio time is expensive or because� (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. AUERBACH: That's because, you know, we're cheap. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just to clarify, I think that Rose and Donna and Martha, and Mickey, and Jack are special *because* of all of those things they do with their 'ordinary' human bravery and cleverness, which is why the s1 and s4 finales bother me, because they leave us with the inadvertent implication that to be really special, you have to be like a Time Lord. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On his second day in office, President Obama repudiated George W. Bush’s obsessive and destructive secrecy by ordering his government to obey the Freedom of Information Act. He said it should not withhold documents because they are embarrassing, or reveal failures and errors, or “because of speculative or abstract fears. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Moreover, precisely because we have introduced the conjunction ˜because™ as an explanatory conjunction, it may be felt that it is not well-suited to the ontological role now being devised for it. ❋ Lowe, E. Jonathan (2009)

The idea that women are uniquely civilizing is absolutely sexist by any definition because it assumes that men need civilizing *because* they are men. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

She can't find a job..because the reason she has left her other jobs is because of a military move. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is because of stuff I've said elsewhere -- games are powerful and compelling *because* they're so much like other aspects of our lives. ❋ Unknown (2007)

America needs a change in currency policy because, although a weak dollar helps exports because it lowers the price of American goods for foreign buyers, it will eventually bring negative consequences to the economy in general because a weak dollar, an unstable dollar, makes America less attractive to foreign investment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I do hope that both systems stick it out for the long haul..mainly because I will probably get another DS sometime..because they have some good games. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The _Atlantic_ author asserts that, because the State offices in the rebel States have been vacated, therefore Congress has the authority to govern them, and intimates that all powers not reserved to the respective States belong to Congress, _because there is no other to wield them_. ❋ Various (N/A)

Vacant upon this reason, _because they were put upon congregations without their consent_, his Majesty desires it may be so expressed, as may be consistent with the rights of Patrons, which he thinks he hath the more reason to desire, because in the reasons sent up with the Act, it seems to be acknowledged that this procedure is Extraordinary, and not to be drawn into consequence .... ❋ James Pringle Thomson (N/A)

This gives rise to what is known in technical logic as the _post hoc ergo propter hoc_ fallacy; that is, the assumption that because one thing happens after another, therefore it happens _because_ of it. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)

Would not this explain her otherwise unaccountable fondness for witnessing the execution of murderers, for the horrible in novels and the deaths and catastrophes in the newspapers, that she has a constitutional relish for such horrid things, and that she enjoys them, not because they are _in se_ productive of pleasure, but just, as is the case with her "crying," _because she feels better after it_? ❋ Various (N/A)

Policy and charity unite in this -- 'charity detests slavery because it oppresses; policy, more elevated, condemns it _because it corrupts the inferior race_.' ❋ Various (N/A)

Or is it because so many of them became British subjects _only because_ they were compelled to take an oath of allegiance (or sign a declaration) to a government they neither loved nor respected but hated and despised? ❋ P. H. Kritzinger (N/A)

"God spake thus and so to me," is a phrase which the self-conscious initiate employs, _because he has lost sight of the_ cosmic light, or because he finds it expedient to use that phraseology in delivering the message of cosmic consciousness. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The King Amadis asked the Count Gandalin to lead their prisoners to the Infanta Leonorina, in his behalf and that of his son Esplandian, and to say to her that he begged her to do honor to the Sultan, because he was so great a prince and so strong a knight, and, withal, very noble; and to do honor to the Queen, _because she was ❋ Various (N/A)

Vigorous, clean-blooded young fellows of nineteen and twenty turned over and died because they had lost their courage, because other people were dying, —because death was in the air. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Soviets of the Peasants has been dissolved because of the absence from it of poor peasants and _because its state of mind is obviously counter-revolutionary. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

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