Phrase Hound found 20 phrases and 4 compound words that contain causes. The most common are listed below. Open causes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 20
- causes of actionplural of cause of action: A condition under which one party would be entitled to sue another.
- causes of deathplural of cause of death: The official cause of a human death as typically determined by a coroner during an autopsy and included on the death certificate of a deceased person.
- natural causesCauses such as illness or disease, as opposed to direct external forces.
- root causesplural of root cause: An initiating cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.
- causes and effectsplural of cause and effect: Causation; causality; the process whereby a cause leads to an effect.
- common causesplural of common cause: A shared purpose.
- external causesplural of external cause: A cause for an effect in a system that is not a constituent of that system, especially causes of personal health problems or death, such as poison, weapon wounds, or accident.
- final causesplural of final cause: The purpose, goal, or end fulfilled by a thing.
- good causesplural of good cause: Adequate or substantial grounds or reason to take a certain action, or to fail to take an action prescribed by law.
- material causesplural of material cause: The stuff or matter of which something is made.
- efficient causesplural of efficient cause: The being or event which physically brings about the change or motion that produces another occurrence or thing.
- formal causesplural of formal cause: The design, pattern, or pure concept of a thing, which gives form or structure to its matter.
- causes a stirthird-person singular simple present indicative of cause a stir: To cause controversy, or raise a disturbance.
- first causesplural of first cause: An initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow.
- just causesplural of just cause: A common standard in employment law, as a form of job security, indicating that a terminated employee has been dismissed from the job for misconduct, or another sufficient reason.
- lost causesplural of lost cause: A person or thing that is hopeless or futile.
- proximate causesplural of proximate cause: 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.
- causes célèbresplural of cause célèbre: An issue or incident (originally, a legal case) arousing widespread controversy or public debate.
- probable causesplural of probable cause: Reasonable grounds for making an arrest or conducting a personal or property search.
- rebels without causesplural of rebel without a cause: One who fights for the sake of fighting but has no clear goal to achieve.
Compound words 4
- concausesplural of concause: A joint cause.
- countercausesplural of countercause: A cause that opposes or counteracts another cause.
- subcausesplural of subcause: A cause forming part of a larger cause.
- undercausesplural of undercause: The underlying cause; root cause.