case study

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪs ˌstʌdi/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

case study (plural case studies)

1. (uncountable) Research performed in detail on a single individual, group, incident or community, as opposed to, for instance, a sample of the whole population.
2. (countable) A case used in a such research.
3. (countable) A very good example of something. [with in]
   • 2026 April 21, GoFarTogether, r/jobsearchhacks (Reddit post):

     Waymo is a case study in AI very successfully driving cars. It is not cost effective however and there are huge legal hurdles, mostly because of the job displacement it would cause.

Translations

research performed in detail on a single case

• Azerbaijani: hadisənin öyrənilməsi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 個案研究 / 个案研究 (gè'àn yánjiū), 個案調查 / 个案调查 (gè'àn diàochá), 案例研究 (ànlì yánjiū)

• Czech: případová studie f
• Finnish: tapaustutkimus (fi), case study (fi)
• French: étude de cas f
• German: Fallstudie (de) f
• Hebrew: חקר מקרה m
• Hungarian: esettanulmány (hu)
• Irish: cás-staidéar m, staidéar ar chás áirithe m, staidéar cáis m
• Italian: caso di studio m
• Japanese: 事例研究 (jirei kenkyū), ケーススタディー (kēsu sutadī)
• Māori: mātai tūāhua
• Polish: studium przypadku n
• Portuguese: estudo de caso m
• Russian: уче́бный приме́р m (učébnyj primér)
• Serbo-Croatian: студија случаја (studija slučaja)
• Spanish: estudio de caso m, análisis de casos m
• Swedish: fallstudie (sv) c
• Turkish: olay incelemesi
• Vietnamese: nghiên cứu vụ án, nghiên cứu tình huống, nghiên cứu cứ liệu, bài học thương vụ (for business cases)

case used in such research

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 個案研究 / 个案研究 (gè'àn yánjiū), 個案調查 / 个案调查 (gè'àn diàochá), 案例研究 (ànlì yánjiū)

• Finnish: case (fi), esimerkkitapaus
• Hebrew: מקרה בוחן m
• Irish: cás-staidéar m, staidéar ar chás áirithe m, staidéar cáis m
• Māori: mātai tūāhua
• Polish: przypadek (pl) m
• Portuguese: caso de estudo m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: caso práctico m, caso de estudio m, caso para análisis m

See also

• case report

References

• “case study”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.