Proximate cause

Noun

Word Frequency: 0.7

Definitions

1.NounAn 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.

Synonyms

efficient cause occasion causal link cause and effect causality continuative concause causal causation consequence incident proximality

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