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

It will be driven by practical use cases where better batteries can reduce downtime, improve safety and make existing operations more efficient. — Darren Tan, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Over the past two years, many enterprises have taken a maximalist approach to AI adoption — launching more use cases, onboarding more employees, deploying more agents, and consuming more tokens. — Sumeet Agrawal, Fortune, 20 July 2026

The same reporting notes that phytoestrogen supplements may deliver only 10% to 20% symptom reduction in certain use cases a modest and variable payoff that helps explain why women keep experimenting rather than settling on one product. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026

Emergence and dynamism Runway’s approach doesn’t have as obvious a use case for regular users. — ArsTechnica, 13 July 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