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raison d'être
[ rey-zohn de-truh; French re-zawn de-truh ]
noun
- reason or justification for being or existence:
Art is the artist's raison d'être.
raison d'être
/ rɛzɔ̃ dɛtrə /
noun
- reason or justification for existence
raison d'être
- A basic, essential purpose; a reason to exist: “Professor Naylor argues that in the nuclear age, infantry forces have lost their raison d'être.” From French, meaning “reason for being.”
Word History and Origins
Origin of raison d'être1
Example Sentences
To underscore the Ballers’ raison d’etre — a baseball team that never would abandon Oakland — Freedman and Carmel sold ownership stakes to fans.
At the time, Beard was convinced that the agency’s raison d’être had to change.
The Trump-Vance culture wars, as advanced by Republicans in Congress, are but a ruse, a public relations beard to disguise the GOP’s true raison d'etre: the protection of wealth.
My whole raison d’être was to build the bridge between one of the oldest cultures, India, with the youngest, America.
An animated, animal-centric children’s movie tends to require a narrative structure of action-packed adventure — the antithesis of Garfield the cat’s raison d’être.
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