by reason of
C1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Because of or on account of a specified cause, used to attribute a consequence to it.
The Landlord may forfeit the lease by reason of the tenant's persistent failure to pay rent.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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