- case stud|y
- case stud|y,1. a case history, especially of an individual.2. an analysis of a case history or histories; a sty based on exhaustive compilation of actual cases.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
case stud|y
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stud — ‘place where horses are bred’ and stud ‘nail’ [OE] are different words. The former (like stable and stall) denotes etymologically a place where animals ‘stand’, in this case for breeding purposes. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *stōtham, a… … Word origins
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case method — noun Etymology: case (I) 1. : case system 2. : a method of instruction used especially in colleges and universities that presents for observation and analysis actual recorded or current instances of the problem under study and often calls upon… … Useful english dictionary
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