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• noun 1 an instance of a particular situation or set of circumstances. 2 an instance of a disease, injury, or problem. 3 an incident under official investigation by the police. 4 a legal action that is to be or has been decided in a court of law. 5 a set of facts or arguments supporting one side of a debate or lawsuit. 6 a person or their situation as a subject of medical or welfare attention. 7 Grammar an inflected form of a noun, adjective, or pronoun expressing the semantic relation of the word to other words in the sentence: the possessive case. — PHRASES be the case be so. in case so as to provide for the possibility of something happening or being true. on (or off) someone’s case informal continually (or no longer) criticizing or harassing someone. — ORIGIN Latin casus ‘fall, occurrence, chance’.
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