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root cause

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  • noun idiomatic An initiating cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.

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  • DrBillCorcoran commented on the word root cause

    There are three dozen more definitions of root cause in "The Rootician's Dictionary."

    January 1, 2012