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root cause

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  1. root causenoun

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

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  1. root cause

    A root cause is the fundamental reason or underlying factor responsible for a problem or an issue occurring. It is the main cause that, when rectified or addressed, can prevent the recurrence of the problem or issue in the future. Identifying the root cause involves analyzing and understanding the various contributing factors that lead to the problem or issue, enabling effective and targeted solutions.

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  1. Root cause

    A root cause is an initiating cause of a causal chain which leads to an outcome or effect of interest. Commonly, root cause is used to describe the depth in the causal chain where an intervention could reasonably be implemented to change performance and prevent an undesirable outcome. In plain English a "root cause" is a "cause" that is "root". The term root cause has been used in professional journals as early as 1905. Paradies would define a root cause as follows: "The most basic cause that can reasonably be identified that management has control to fix and, when fixed, will prevent the problem’s recurrence."

Editors Contribution

  1. root cause

    To know at superluminal speed intuitively the accurate cause of a word which is being communicated or type of behavior that is manifesting in a pattern of communication and to know intuitively the accurate and specific word in the planet earth dictionary that requires superluminal change on a fasttrack to change the pattern now and cocreate optimum health, human rights, right to life, civil rights, ethical, fair, just and moral shared prosperity and change and other rights for animals, human beings, structures and systems on planet earth.

    The root cause is intuitively know within our soul as the patterns are so visible and the words are known also.


    Submitted by MaryC on May 29, 2020  


  2. root cause

    To know intuitively the accurate cause and reason why a behavior, emotion, feeling, pattern or thing is happening.

    The root cause of the electorate behavior in the local area was they wanted change to ensure all who wanted to work had access to employment opportunities .


    Submitted by MaryC on November 28, 2015  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of root cause in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of root cause in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of root cause in a Sentence

  1. Mongkol Sukcharoenkana:

    The fisheries law is deformed. The regulations based on it are then also deformed. We have to fix the root cause, if the government won't fix the problems for us, we'll just oust them.

  2. Husky Energy:

    Our focus in the days ahead will turn to the investigation and understanding the root cause of the incident.

  3. Kweku Adoboli:

    If we as a society are more honest and the leaders of these institutions are more honest about culture and systemic risk then we might get a step close to fixing the root cause of the problem.

  4. Ron Bailey:

    We've actually shut in everything at Kinosis and our priority is not to bring Kinosis back on production, we will be focusing on understanding the root cause of any failure here and the reliability of our systems before we ever start up this system again.

  5. Christine Wade:

    I think theres not much interest in addressing corruption in the region even though its clearly been shown to be a root cause of migration, particularly out of Honduras and Guatemala.


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