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What is a raison d'etre?

What is a raison d'etre? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Anglicized spelling of raison d'être; a reason for living.
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Capacity building, from institutions to trained personnel, must be the raison d'etre of UNESCO's activities in freshwater.
Academic institutions tend not to think in terms of a business model, but nonetheless research is a raison d'etre for creating these facilities and research grants are essential to carrying out research.
Other negative concerns focused on American appeasement as the Act's raison d'etre, and the justice system's slow-spinning wheels.
However the raison d'etre of True Wales is that Wales should only be taking orders from London-based politicians.
Those directly involved in, or affected by, the current system of language training in the Public Service feel that present arrangements have lost their raison d'etre.
Partial reforms are therefore the current raison d'etre of the party's brains trust.

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