case system
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of case system
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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The FBI has a case system in which every document that goes into a file is “serialized” based on the date it was added—in other words, you can’t backdate fake documents and insert them.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2018
"There is no proof that the safety case system would be better than California's current system."
From Reuters • Jan. 16, 2014
"The CSB's safety case system falls short in this case," Bresland said.
From Reuters • Jan. 16, 2014
Anglo-Saxon-minded defenders of common law and the case system of teaching it deplored his long lectures on administrative and constitutional law.
From Time Magazine Archive
A proper case system may not have been established in a language by the fixing of case particles, or, having been established, it may change by the increase or diminution of the number of cases.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley
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