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informalC2 used to talk about the reasons for a particular situation, especially a bad or difficult situation:
I'm very tired, what with travelling all day yesterday and having a disturbed night.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: connecting words which introduce a cause or reason
- at
- because
- because of
- behalf
- cos
- courtesy
- fear
- for
- from
- herein
- necessarily
- on sb's account idiom
- order
- owing to
- right
- sake 1
- thanks
- through
- with
- with a view to doing sth idiom
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