case study
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈkeɪs ˈstʌdi/
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estudio de caso
- The professor assigned us a case study to examine the effects of climate change on coastal cities.
- present a case study
- use a case study
- examine a case study
Maybe a more extreme case study from your practice that you've seen.
- Maybe a more extreme case study from your practice that you've seen.
- It's an interesting case study in unspoken peer pressure.
- So we'll move on from the case studies of Paris and London, which are classic.
- The Business School actually wrote a case study about the dilemma I faced.
- It will then suggest analogies, research, case studies, examples that you could be writing about.
- The result of the initial case study was with six sessions in VR.
- This is not a psychological case study on the host of this podcast.
- actually, though they're an interesting case study for
- So pretty interesting case study, but that's all it is.
Examples
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For example, both our case studies were set in large, urban areas with many students affected by poverty.
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Using this approach, we examine two case studies of CBITS implementation.
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So we'll move on from the case studies of Paris and London, which are classic.
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The electric car's kind of an interesting case study.
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Congress called the Afghanistan contract a case study in all that is wrong with the government's procurement process.
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The team wrote case studies for each participant, which became helpful in the analysis.
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Deborah is a fascinating case study.
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In the New Orleans case study, school-level factors played a more significant role.
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The researcher presented a detailed analysis in her case study on childhood education.
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For my final project, I chose to conduct a case study on the impact of social media on teenagers.
Synonyms
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2.9
A careful search for the truth about something
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2.1
A report that gives the results of research
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a detailed analysis of a particular person, group, or situation' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'case' (a particular instance or subject) with 'study' (an investigation). This noun+noun compositional pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'estudio de caso', French 'étude de cas'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Case study comes from the words case, meaning one real example like a patient or a legal case, and study, meaning a careful, close look. Imagine a researcher following one person's situation closely and writing down everything, so case study means 'a detailed look at one person, group, or situation'.