Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hoch, Gewalt.. · force majeure; act of God (an event for which someone cannot be held responsible because it was out of their capacity to influence or foresee it)
çekim: tamlayan höherer Gewalt
köken: Literally, “higher power/force”. Compare French force majeure and similar forms in other languages.
Bei Streik wird einem seine Zugfahrkarte nicht erstattet, da das höhere Gewalt ist.
köken: From Latin cataclysmus, from Ancient Greek κατακλυσμός (kataklusmós, “deluge, flood”), from κατακλύζω (kataklúzō, “to dash over, flood, deluge, inundate”), from κατά (katá, “downwards, towards”) + κλύζω (klúzō, “to wash off, to wash away, to dash over”).