due to

See also: dueto

English

Pronunciation

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Preposition

due to

1. Caused by; resulting from; because of.

   Rising unemployment due to the economic downturn is spreading.

   The carrier will be held financially responsible for any damage due to reckless handling.

   Due to the rising cost of ingredients, the company decided to change the recipe. [disjunctive use, sometimes proscribed]

   • 1908, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in The New York Times:

     The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see due,‎ to.

   The steamship was due to arrive in the Port of New York tomorrow.

Usage notes

• Although usage of "due to" as a disjunctive preposition is now common, some speakers will object and recommend because of, on account of, as a result of or owing to instead, reserving due for use as an adjective only. Reliable sources (such as Oxford, M-W, etc.) acknowledge this debate, then conclude that more recently this usage of "due to" is widely, although perhaps not entirely, acceptable. Compare also the disjunctive use of based on.
• The conjunction due to the fact that, frequently encountered in business and politics, is generally rejected by style experts as being an unnecessarily wordy synonym of because.

Synonyms

• caused by, as a consequence of, as a result of, because of, thanks to, on account of

Translations

caused by

• Afrikaans: as gevolg van, weens (af)
• Arabic: بِسَبَب (bisabab)
• Azerbaijani: ucbatından, üzündən
• Belarusian: з-за (z-za), праз (praz), дзя́куючы (dzjákujučy) (thanks to), праз (praz)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: поради́ (bg) (poradí), благодаре́ние на (blagodarénie na) (thanks to)
• Catalan: degut a (ca)
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 由於 / 由于 (zh) (yóuyú), 因為 / 因为 (zh) (yīnwèi, yīnwéi)

• Czech: kvůli (cs)
• Danish: på grund af
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: door (nl), veroorzaakt door, als gevolg van
• Esperanto: pro (eo)
• Finnish: takia (fi), johdosta (fi), johtuen (fi)
• French: à cause de (fr)
• Galician: por causa de, por mor de (gl)
• German: aufgrund (de), wegen (de)
• Greek: εξαιτίας (el) (exaitías), λόγω (el) (lógo)
• Hindi: के कारण (ke kāraṇ), के वजह से (ke vajah se)
• Hungarian: miatt (hu)
• Irish: de bharr, toisc
• Italian: a causa di
• Japanese: …のせいで (ja) (... no sei de), …のために (ja) (... no tame ni)
• Khmer: ដោយសារតែការ (daoy saa tae kaa), បង្កឡើងដោយ (bɑngkɑɑ laəng daoy)
• Korean: ... 때문에 (ko) (... ttaemun-e)
• Latin: propter + accusative, ob (la) + accusative
• Macedonian: поради (poradi), благодарение на (blagodarenie na) (thanks to)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: верч (verč)

• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: på grunn av (no), grunnet, takket være

  Nynorsk: på grunn av, grunna, takk vere, for skuld

• Polish: z powodu (pl) + genitive, ze względu na (pl), przez (pl)
• Portuguese: devido a (pt), devido (pt)
• Romanian: datorită (ro)
• Russian: и́з-за (ru) (íz-za) (because of), благодаря́ (ru) (blagodarjá) (thanks to)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: збо̏г

  Roman: zbȍg

• Slovak: kvôli
• Slovene: zaradi (sl)
• Spanish: debido a, a raíz de
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: వల్ల (te) (valla)
• Turkish: (-den) ötürü (tr)
• Ukrainian: че́рез (čérez), з-за (z-za), і́з-за (íz-za), завдяки́ (zavdjaký) (thanks to)
• Venetan: par (vec)
• Vietnamese: do (vi), vì (vi), nhờ (vi), tại (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: o achos, oherwydd

Anagrams

• outed