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• Rebel Without a Cause
  1. (1955) a US film in which James DEAN appeared as a TEENAGER from a MIDDLE CLASS family who gets into trouble with the police. As a result of this performance DEAN became the most typical example of a young REBEL (= someone who refuses to behave in the way that society expects) .
• cause célèbre (noun)
  1. an event or legal case that a lot of people become interested in, because it is an exciting subject to discuss or argue about
• cause of action (noun)
  1. law a claim sufficient to demand judicial attention; the facts that give rise to right of action
• cause of death (noun)
  1. the causal agent resulting in death
• cause to be perceived (verb)
  1. have perceptible qualities
• cause to sleep (verb)
  1. make fall asleep
• final cause (noun)
  1. philosophy the end or purpose of a thing or process
• first cause (noun)
  1. an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
• lost cause (noun)
  1. a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable
• probable cause (noun)
  1. law evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure
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