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cause

a. a ground for legal action; matter giving rise to a lawsuit

b. the lawsuit itself

2. (in the philosophy of Aristotle) any of four requirements for a thing's coming to be, namely material (material cause), its nature (formal cause), an agent (efficient cause), and a purpose (final cause)

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