because
US /bɪˈkɔz/
conjunction Foundation · A2 Đời sống hằng ngày
Definition
the quality, condition, or instance of because
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
The flight was delayed because of heavy fog over the city.
Collocations
- Easy smile because you are happyto smile because you are happy, meaning to change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
- Medium rejected because of missing signaturesto rejected because of missing signatures, meaning to refuse to accept or acknowledge
- Hard nullified because of non-complianceto nullified because of non-compliance, meaning to declare invalid
- Very Hard not because it is easy, but harddescribing not because it is easy, but hard (negation of a word or group of words)
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