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

The goal is to identify accounts with the right pain, size, use case and buying environment. — Samuel Darwin, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Making restaurant reservations on their creator’s behalf is one of the AI assistants’ most visible use cases, especially as diners face the growing headache of navigating different apps and credit card reward tiers just to book a meal. — T.m. Brown, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

Accenture says that the AI use cases that insurers have prioritized have been focused on claims and underwriting, reflecting the outsized importance of those parts of the business to the industry’s total revenue generation. — John Kell, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

My one complaint on that front is that, unlike Nvidia and AMD, which are also making desktops with local AI capability, Apple doesn't offer guides or playbooks for these AI use cases, not even for the developer community. — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

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