case
/keɪs/ noun A1- An actual event, situation, or fact. · For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.· It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.
- A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter. · It was one of the detective's easiest cases.· Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.
- An instance or event as a topic of study. · The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
- A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
- A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence. · The accusative case most commonly indicates a direct object.· Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
- Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language. · Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.· Latin is a language that employs case.
- An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms. · There were another five cases reported overnight.
- A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
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Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Everything about this case is rum.
The Orientals are stronger than we are in cases of conscience, and, very prudently, have no hell—that is the point.”
“Now I recollect,” said the afflicted old father; “my poor boy told me yesterday he had got a small case of coffee, and another of tobacco for me!”
In this case, however, although the occasion of the entertainment was similar, the company was strikingly dissimilar.
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