use case

noun

variants or less commonly use-case

ˈyüs-ˌkās 

plural use cases also use-cases

: a use to which something (such as a proposed product or service) can be put : application sense 1a(2)

There are various use cases for the cloud: website hosting, disaster recovery, … etc.

—David Balaban

Users seem to want single-purpose mobile apps that nail a specific use case quickly.

—Josh Constine

The pandemic has pushed the adoption of technology for various use-cases.

—businesswire.com

Examples of use case in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Perhaps China’s aggressive state spending, open-source AI coding, and interest in ordinary use cases for the technology will ultimately give the country an edge over American firms that are expensively chasing revolutionary applications for a more theoretical product. —Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026

Potential use cases Haile mentioned several different use cases for the vaccine, primarily those with opioid use disorder who want to quit using fentanyl. —Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 2 Jan. 2026

Foundation models are typically trained on mass amounts of data and information, but lack the training for a specific use case; that in mind, Dyna’s robots use the knowledge the foundation model has been trained on to adapt to real-world scenarios. —Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 30 Dec. 2025

But 2026 will be the year organizations move beyond these initial use cases to deploy systems that can reason, plan, and act autonomously across core operations. —Sridhar Ramaswamy, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1991, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for use case

• aerospace
• anatase
• anyplace
• commonplace
• cyberspace
• database
• diabase
• diastase
• dnase
• elastase
• fireplace
• hyperspace