CASE STUDY
Dictionary entry overview: What does case study mean?
• CASE STUDY (noun)
The noun CASE STUDY has 2 senses:
1. a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure
2. a detailed analysis of a person or group from a social or psychological or medical point of view
Familiarity information: CASE STUDY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CASE STUDY (noun)
Meaning:
A careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("case study" is a kind of...):
report; study; written report (a written document describing the findings of some individual or group)
Domain category:
corp; corporation (a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state)
Meaning:
A detailed analysis of a person or group from a social or psychological or medical point of view
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("case study" is a kind of...):
analysis (an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole)
