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business case en · NOUN

Etymology

From business + case.

Meanings

1. A reason for doing something; an explanation of the benefit of some course of action to a business.
   • Those most rural routes will not get overhead wires. As Reeve told the seminar: "Even in my wildest dreams, I can't see a business case for electrifying the Far North Line." 2022 August 10, Philip Haigh, “Scotland switched on to electrification”, in RAIL, number 963, page 35:
   • The business case has been premised on a four trains per hour service from Reading to Heathrow T5, with all trains calling at Slough and alternate ones at Twyford and Maidenhead. 2019 October, Ruth Bagley tells James Abbott, “Crunch time for Heathrow western link”, in Modern Railways, page 74:

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