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case study

noun

  1. a study of an individual unit, as a person, family, or social group, usually emphasizing developmental issues and relationships with the environment, especially in order to compare a larger group to the individual unit.

  2. case history.



case study

noun

  1. the act or an instance of analysing one or more particular cases or case histories with a view to making generalizations

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Word History and Origins

Origin of case study1

First recorded in 1930–35
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These two case studies are part of a growing field of research set on trying to understand which animals have the capacity to be musical, providing clues on how and why music evolved in humans.

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Indeed it had, but it does still amount to a case study in a classic Brexit trade-off of making trade easier at the expense of handing over some power.

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Emma Pinchbeck, the CCC's chief executive, told BBC news what had happened at Port Talbot was "foreseeable and preventable", and had "not been the best case study" for what a green transition should look like.

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For a historian with an interest in the intersection of factors that propel an epidemic, 2020 offered a living case study.

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For Mamdani, Bay Ridge, the site of his political epiphany, is a case study for expanding his support in places where the historical appetite for left-wing politics is limited.

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