owing to
owing to preposition: because of, on account of.
Preposition
owing to
- Because of, on account of.
- I gave up my job as a typist owing to repetitive strain injury.
- It’s all owing to your precious caution that they got hold of it. If you had let me burn it, and taken my word that it was gone, it would have been a heap of ashes behind the fire, instead of being whole and sound, inside of my great-coat.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
- Synonyms:
- as a consequence of, as a result of, because of, due to, thanks to, on account of
owing to meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Odia and Arabic
owing to in Tamil
- காரணமாக
owing to in Malayalam
- as a result of, because of, on account of
- കാരണമായി, ആകയാൽ, അതുകൊണ്ട്, കാരണത്താൽ, തസ്മാത്, അതുഹേതുവായിട്ട്
owing to in Odia
- owing to; because of
- ରୁ -ru
owing to in Arabic
- because of
- بِسَبَبّ bisababb
Examples of owing to in a sentence
- Owing to the TB I connected breathing with joy, and owing to the gloom of the ward I connected joy with light, and owing to my irrationality I related light on the walls to light inside me.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 62:
- "Owing to the ongoing conflict, all rail services are subject to change on a short notice," warns the European Rail Timetable at the end of its short entry on the general state of Ukraine's railways.2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 49:
Synonyms of owing to
- as a consequence of
- as a result of
- because of
- due to
- thanks to
- on account of
Questions about owing to
- What does owing to mean?
- Owing to means because of, on account of.
- What is owing to in Tamil?
- Owing to in Tamil is காரணமாக. See Owing to meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use owing to in a sentence?
- Owing to the TB I connected breathing with joy, and owing to the gloom of the ward I connected joy with light, and owing to my irrationality I related light on the walls to light inside me.
- What part of speech is owing to?
- Owing to is a preposition.
Words near owing to in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: owing to (page history and authors); owing to (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); owing to (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ରୁ (Odia) (page history and authors). 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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