"what with" meaning in English

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Preposition

Audio: en-us-what with.ogg [US], en-au-what with.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositions|head=}} what with, {{en-preposition}} what with
  1. (idiomatic, informal) Owing to; because of; as a result of. Tags: idiomatic, informal Translations (owing to): حَيْث (ḥayṯ) (Arabic), لِأَن (liʔan) (Arabic), بِسَبَب (bi-sabab) (Arabic), út af (Icelandic), ji ber (Northern Kurdish), seba (Northern Kurdish)

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