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owing tomeaning

preposition·B2·7 letters

because of, as a result of

Example sentence

The flight was delayed owing to heavy fog at the airport.

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The flight was delayed owing to heavy fog at the airport.

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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

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