case study

noun

1

: an intensive analysis of an individual unit (such as a person or community) stressing developmental factors in relation to environment

2

: case history

Examples of case study in a Sentence

a case study of prisoners

The company's recent history is a case study in bad management.

Recent Examples on the Web

The 2026 Astros are a case study in making things more difficult than needed. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026

Recently, micropaleontologists integrated and synthesized data on the shell-coiling direction, or chirality, of several species from case studies of forams dating back as far as 56 million years. — Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026

But new guidance from the Texas Medical Board includes only a case study with an ectopic pregnancy that can be seen in an ultrasound, remaining silent on the difficulty of early ultrasounds to detect where a pregnancy has implanted. — Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2026

In several case studies documented by AHRDO, women who approached the Taliban courts to complain about domestic abuse, violence and even rape were arrested and charged with moral crimes and sentenced to public lashing. — Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 8 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for case study

• understudy
• bloody
• buddy
• cuddy
• muddy
• ruddy
• scudi
• restudy