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

Word History and Origins

Origin of case study¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

In a case study from Metric Theory, Target Impression Share bidding, the total cost per click increased with both mobile and desktop devices.

From Search Engine Watch

It would also become the subject of a fair number of business school case studies.

From Fortune

Not just blog posts, you can also share other resources like case studies, podcast episodes, and webinars via Instagram Stories.

From Search Engine Watch

They become the architecture for a case study of Flint, expressed in a more personal and poetic way than a straightforward investigation could.

From Washington Post

The Creek Fire was a case study in the challenge facing today’s fire analysts, who are trying to predict the movements of fires that are far more severe than those seen just a decade ago.

From MIT Technology Review

A case study would be your Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke.

From The Daily Beast

A good case study for the minority superhero problem is Luke Cage.

From The Daily Beast

He was asked to review a case study out of Lebanon that had cited his work.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, now we have a political science case-study proving how political fortunes can shift and change at warp speed.

From The Daily Beast

One interesting case study is Sir Arthur Evans, the original excavator and “restorer” of the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete.

From The Daily Beast

As this is a case study, it should be said that my first mistake was in discrediting my early religious experience.

From Project Gutenberg

The author of a recent case study of democracy in a frontier county commented on the need for this kind of investigation.

From Project Gutenberg

How could a case study of Virginia during this period illustrate these developments?

From Project Gutenberg

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