Case-load

Definition

case 1 /keÇs/ n ၁။ [C] အေျခအေန။ ကိစၥ။ The company only dismisses its employees in cases of gross misconduct. ❍ It's a clear case of blackmail! ❍ It's a classic case (ie a very typical case) of bad management. ၂။ the case [ sing] အေၾကာင္း။ Is it the case (ie Is it true) that the company's sales have dropped? ❍ If that is the case (ie If the situation is as stated), you will have to work much harder. ၃။ [ C usu sing ] ကိစၥ။ In your case, we are prepared to be lenient. ❍ I cannot make an exception in your case (ie for you and not for others). ၄။ [ C] အမႈ။ ျပစ္မႈ။ a murder case/a case of murder. ၅။ [ C] (က) အမႈအခင္း။ The case will be heard in court next week. ❍ When does your case come before the court? (ခ) ( usu sing ) အေထာက္အထား။ ရပ္တည္ခ်က္။ the case for the defence/prosecution ❍ the case for/against the abolition of the death penalty. ❍ You have a very strong case. ၆။ [ C] ေရာဂါ။ ေဝဒနာ။ a case of typhoid ❍ Cases of smallpox are becoming rare. ၇။ [C] လူနာ။ a hopeless case (ie a sick person who cannot be cured). ၈။ [U, C] ( grammar ) ကာရက။ the nominative case ❍ the accusative case ❍ Latin nouns have case, number and gender. ❏ case history n လူတစ္ေယာက္၏ အတိတ္အျဖစ္အပ်က္။ ေရာဂါမွတ္တမ္း။ ❏ a case in point [ IDM ] ေဆြးေႏြးသည့္ကိစၥႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ သာဓက။ ❏ case-law n [U] ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့ေသာ စီရင္ခ်က္မ်ားကို အေျခခံေသာ ဥပေဒ။ Compare COMMON LAW, STATUTE LAW See also TEST CASE ❏ case-load n ဆရာဝန္တစ္ဦး ကုသေနေသာလူနာမ်ား။ လူမႈ ဝန္ထမ္းတစ္ဦး တာဝန္ယူသည့္သူမ်ား။ ❏ as the case may be [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းအားေလ်ာ္စြာ။ There may be an announcement about this tomorrow—or not, as the case may be. ❏ case-study n ပုဂၢိဳလ္တစ္ဦး၊ ပုဂၢိဳလ္တစ္စု၏ ကာလအပိုင္း အျခား တစ္ခုအတြင္း တိုးတက္မႈေလ့လာခ်က္။ ❏ in any case [ IDM ] ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ ဘာပဲျဖစ္ခဲ့ျဖစ္ခဲ့။ မည္ သို႔ဆိုေစ။ There's no point complaining about the hotel room—we'll be leaving tomorrow in any case. ❏ (just) in case (…) [ IDM ] လိုရမည္ရ။ It may rain—you'd better take an umbrella (just) in case (it does). ❏ in case of sth [ IDM ] ျဖစ္လာခဲ့လွ်င္။ In case of fire, ring the alarm bell. ❏ in that case [ IDM ] ထိုကဲ့သို႔ျဖစ္ခဲ့လွ်င္။ ဒါဆိုရင္။ You don't like your job? In that case why don't you leave? ❏ make out a case (for sth) [ IDM ] ေထာက္ခံခ်က္ေပး သည္။ The report makes out a strong case for increased spending on libraries. case 2 /keÇs/ n ၁။ (က) (often in compounds) ေသတၱာ။ အိတ္။ ဘူး။ a jewellery case ❍ a pencil case ❍ a packing-case (ie a large wooden box for packing goods in) ❍ Exhibits in museums are often displayed in glass cases. (ခ) ပစၥည္း ႏွင့္တကြေသာ ေသတၱာ၊ အိတ္၊ ဘူး။ a case (ie 12 bottles) of champagne. ၂။ ခရီးေဆာင္ လက္ဆြဲေသတၱာ။ Could you carry my case for me? ❏ case the joint [ IDM ] ( sl ) ဓားျပတိုက္မည့္ေနရာကို ႀကိဳ တင္ေလ့လာသည္။ ❏ casing n [U, C] အဖံုးအအုပ္။ အခြံ။ wrapped in rubber casing.

Examples

1. [case of] : A serious case of nerves
2. [case of] : A bad case of food poisoning
3. He treated several cases of severe sunburn.
4. I think we can make an exception in your case.
5. [be the case] : This was the case in the past
6. but now life is different.
7. [if that’s the case] : If that’s the case
8. I’m not surprised he was angry.
9. [it is the case that] : Isn’t it the case that they’re afraid of change?
10. [it’s a case of] : It really is a case of ‘no news is good news’.
11. [in that case] : ‘I don’t need it tonight.’ ‘In that case
12. I’ll keep it until tomorrow.’
13. [in which case] : They can still agree to our conditions
14. in which case the bombing will stop.
15. [as is the case] : Often
16. as is the case for these families
17. there is no other source of support.
18. A civil/criminal case
19. The case involved charges of police corruption.
20. [a murder/rape/libel case] : A number of libel cases were taken to the Court of Appeal.
21. [case against] : He was confident the case against him would be dropped.
22. [win/lose a case] : He would do anything to win a case.
23. At least a dozen officers are investigating the murder case.
24. [the case for the prosecution/the defence] : Mr Scott informed the judge that he had completed the case for the prosecution.
25. [have a case] : The lawyers told me I didn’t have a case.
26. This strengthens the case of those who argue that the UK should have a Bill of Rights.
27. [case for/against] : There is a strong case for government intervention.
28. [state your case] : She was being offered a chance to state her case.
29. [make (out) a case for something] : Calvin makes a good case for this unpopular policy in his article.
30. A case can be made for reducing taxes right now.
31. There have been several reports of cases of neglected and abused children.
32. Each social worker was assigned 30 cases.
33. Have you seen my glasses’ case anywhere?
34. The paintings were shipped in large wooden cases.
35. [case of] : We bought a case of wine.
36. In typography
37. the case of the text is as important as typing in bold font or in italics.
38. The education minister set out the case for reforming the current system of education.