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ostensible reason

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ostensible
adjective[before noun]
uk /ɒsˈten.sə.bəl/ us /ɑːˈsten.sə.bəl/
appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really ...
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reason
noun
uk /ˈriː.zən/ us /ˈriː.zən/
the cause of an event or situation or something that provides an excuse ...
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Examples of ostensible reason


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The ostensiblereason for this rule is to encourage tourism.
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One ostensiblereason was offered to me yesterday.
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What is the ostensiblereason for not setting up pensions appeal tribunals?
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Everybody knows that the ostensiblereason put forward has nothing whatever to do with it.
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There are a number of points about the ostensiblereason for the amalgamation—efficiency.
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What was the ostensiblereason for the levy, and what is it designed to achieve?
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In those circumstances, the ostensiblereason for imposing a television licence duty has entirely disappeared.
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The ostensiblereason for this demand was the rounding up of a few dozen remaining mercenaries in this area.
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Many a trade unionist has found that the ostensiblereason for his dismissal is not the real one.
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The ostensiblereason given by the men for leaving the centre was general dissatisfaction with the conditions.
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That is the ostensiblereason which keeps us within these walls in this weather and at this date.
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That is the ostensiblereason behind the demand that young men should be sent to camps for physical training.
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The ostensiblereason is to give at least some schools more freedom and autonomy and thereby to widen choice.
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The ostensiblereason is to prevent the cost of living rising over a purely arbitrary figure, be it noted.
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That is what is likely to happen, and that will be the ostensiblereason for the demand.
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The ostensiblereason is to create a level playing field for the rural students.
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The ostensiblereason for the tariffs was because the markets for goods in this country were taken from employers in this country by foreigners.
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The sole ostensiblereason for the unanimous refusal of the internees to appear before the court was an objection to the jurisdiction of the court.
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I do not agree so long as the ostensiblereason for any penalisation of either is the causing of a public nuisance.
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One has one's suspicions, but they may not be for this debate, that it was to make a political point, which was very different from the ostensiblereason.
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The ostensiblereason why they have done this, is that they believe that the policy of no discrimination is in the best interests of world trade.
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Too often, though, the performers are simply singing into space without any ostensiblereason for being there.
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The ostensiblereason must have been that the illegitimate offspring would become a burden on the parish.
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The ostensiblereason is solving some of the country issues, but in fact, the country is trying to use their lambda.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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