English Explanatory Dictionary

proximate cause

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.

Word forms

proximate cause proximate causes
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