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

Those are a couple of the favorite use cases of Zuckerberg and Wang, the 29-year-old MIT dropout and Scale AI cofounder Zuckerberg tapped last year to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs. — Emma Witman, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026

Any potential user should have access to helpful documents covering key features, use cases and integrations as well as how to migrate off a competitor’s platform. — Kevin Cochrane, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

While visuals are essential, audio plays a similar role in certain use cases, such as movies and music. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026

Every time companies reach a new level of token efficiency, some new use case for AI is born that burns through ever more compute, proving Jevons Paradox. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 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