0 past simple and past participle of occasion
1 to cause something:
[ + two objects ] The case occasioned the authorities a lot of worry/The authorities were occasioned a lot of worry by the case.
Maybe the near ness to politics occasioned the cynicism and the reliance on older for ms and ties.
The women group protests are also loud, as those that have occasioned production disruptions have been highlighted in the press and media commentaries.
Whenever a wife failed to manage the household's finances effectively, severe hardship would be occasioned for all members of the household.
The splitting of whole numbers, which is also an integral part of the computing process, is occasioned by the need to apportion scarcity.
Our choice was occasioned more by a consideration of the contrasting characteristics of the species than their phylogeny.
Writers from each side aimed ' 'to correct miscommunication occasioned by the failure to know all the facts ' ' (118).
An evaluation is, in the nature of the case, something that is justified, and usually occasioned, by the character of the object assessed.
In a few minutes from a single classroom session, we can observe some examples of how talk is occasioned.
