root cause
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrootandcause
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root
noun[C]
uk/ruːt/us/ruːt/
the part of a plant that grows down into the earth to get water and food and holds the plant firm in ...
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cause
noun
uk/kɔːz/us/kɑːz/
the reason why something, especially something ...
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(Definition ofrootandcausefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Therootcauseanalysis identified the immediate cause of the problem: flawed coding.
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In the 1980s, it was recognized that the over-use of insecticides was therootcauseof outbreaks.
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Once statements have been obtained and the facts of the incident ascertained arootcauseanalysis should be performed.
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More severe incidents should result in a formalrootcauseanalysis.
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This new treatment suggests the progressive notion that one's genes or racial configuration are not necessarily therootcauseof one's poverty or misfortune.
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Some believe that under-investment is therootcauseof stagnation.
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These together with brainstorming and brainwriting, the latter guaranteeing anonymity, form the basic techniques ofrootcauseanalysis.
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The programme was aimed at disentangling therootcause(s) of anxiety symptoms from the coping strategies used to overcome problems.
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If workload is therootcauseof the change in priority and practice, then expansion of the specialty is the answer.
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It is based on the notion that therootcauseof local conflicts is often found in competition over resources.
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For them, unchallenged economic expansion is therootcauseof environmental degradation.
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There is of course some circularity in this association, because age-segregation is arootcauseof age-stereotypes.
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Examining therootcauseof this divergence of intent from the result, the author points to the organizational-behavioral pattern characteristic of bureaucracies.
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The second is the "adaptive-organizational" or "social structure" model, in which the socio-economic environment is therootcauseof changes in parties and party systems.
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First, a failed proof is useful only if itsrootcausecan be explained in a succinct and intelligible way.
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Ultimately, it is difficult to resist the conclusion that it is political-economic failures that have been therootcauseof slow growth.
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Externalities are therootcauseof all these difficulties.
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The other school emphasised the external accounts, pointing to the currency overvaluation as therootcauseof a classic problem of balance of payments disequilibrium.
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