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Nouncandidate MWEcandidate

root cause

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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The underlying or original source of an incident or problem.

MWE

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: cause of failure
plural: root causes
possessive: root cause's
pluralpossessive: root causes'

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