due to

Preposition

 * 1) Caused by; resulting from; because of.
 * Rising unemployment due to the economic downturn is spreading.

Usage notes

 * Although usage of "due to" as an adverbial preposition is now common, some speakers will object and recommend, , or  instead, reserving  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. The adverbial use of "due to" is less common in formal written English.
 * The conjunction, frequently encountered in business and politics, is generally rejected by style experts as being an unnecessarily wordy synonym of.

Synonyms

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

Translations

 * Afrikaans: as gevolg van,
 * Arabic: بِسَبَب
 * Azerbaijani: ucbatından, üzündən
 * Belarusian: з-за, праз, дзя́куючы, праз
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, благодаре́ние на
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: på grund af
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:, veroorzaakt door, als gevolg van
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: por causa de,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: के कारण, के वजह से
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: de bharr, toisc
 * Italian: a causa di
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ដោយសារតែការ, បង្កឡើងដោយ
 * Korean:
 * Latin: propter + accusative, + accusative
 * Macedonian: поради, благодарение на
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: верч
 * Mirandese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, grunnet, takket være
 * Nynorsk: på grunn av, grunna, takk vere, for skuld
 * Polish: + genitive, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: збо̏г
 * Roman: zbȍg
 * Slovak: kvôli
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: debido a, a raíz de
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: че́рез, з-за, і́з-за, завдяки́
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:, , ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: o achos, oherwydd