(~s)
If you describe a person’s action as ~ or a ~, you mean that it is a reason for someone else to react angrily, violently, or emotionally.
He denies murder on the grounds of ~...
The soldiers fired without ~...
N-VAR: usu prep N
(~s)
If you describe a person’s action as ~ or a ~, you mean that it is a reason for someone else to react angrily, violently, or emotionally.
He denies murder on the grounds of ~...
The soldiers fired without ~...
N-VAR: usu prep N
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012