due to
due to preposition: caused by; resulting from; because of.
Preposition
due to
- 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.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see due, to.
- The steamship was due to arrive in the Port of New York tomorrow.
- Our deep gratitude is due to all those who have helped.
- Synonyms:
- caused by, as a consequence of, as a result of, because of, thanks to, on account of
- (of a proof) from, written by
- The proof we provide is a nice indirect proof due to Euclid.
due to meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
due to in Hindi
- caused by
- के कारण ke kāraṇ, की वजह से kī vajah se
due to in Tamil
- caused by
- அதனால் ataṉāl, ஆதலால் ātalāl, ஏனென்றால் ēṉeṉṟāl, ஏனெனில் ēṉeṉil
due to in Telugu
- caused by
- వల్ల valla
due to in Malayalam
- caused by, attributable to, ascribed to
- കാരണത്താൽ, കാരണമായി, ഇന്നകാരണത്താൽ, നിമിത്തഭൂത, അതുകാരണം, അതിനാൽ
- owing to, because of, on account of
- കാരണത്താൽ, അതിനാൽ, അതുകൊണ്ട്, ആകയാൽ, ആയതുകൊണ്ട്, ഫലതഃ
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- due to in Arabic
- بِسَبَب bisabab, مِنْ جَرَّاء min jarrāʔ, عَلَى خَلْفِيَّة ʕalā ḵalfiyya
- due to in Vietnamese
- do, vì, nhờ, tại
Examples of due to in a sentence
- Due to the rising cost of ingredients, the company decided to change the recipe. [disjunctive use, sometimes proscribed]
- The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.1908, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in The New York Times:
- Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident in another country," as I did once at the Swiss station of Spiez?2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
Synonyms of due to
- caused by
- as a consequence of
- as a result of
- because of
- thanks to
- on account of
Questions about due to
- What does due to mean?
- Due to means caused by; resulting from; because of.
- What is due to in Hindi?
- Due to in Hindi is के कारण (ke kāraṇ), की वजह से (kī vajah se). See Due to meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use due to in a sentence?
- Due to the rising cost of ingredients, the company decided to change the recipe. [disjunctive use, sometimes proscribed]
- What part of speech is due to?
- Due to is a preposition.
Words near due to in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: due to (page history and authors); due to (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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