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in any case en · ADP

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Whatever be the case. ▸ Regardless (of an aforementioned point).
    • Later Martin said, "If we ever have another baby girl, I'm going to give her a simple name like Mary Jane." When we did have another daughter, we called her Bernice Albertine, after her two grandmothers. Not quite Mary Jane, but at least named for members of the family. In any case, she is known as Bunny, 1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 107:
    • Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, we can expect to be doing a lot of shoveling tomorrow.
    • Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, let's go to bed.
    • The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building. 1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 28, page 38:
  2. (idiomatic) Whatever be the case. ▸ Any way one slices it (emphasizing that a point is important no matter what).
    • In any case, there are never fewer than two guards on duty here.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, any, case.
    • Their most popular product, an assortment of ales, is packaged such that there are always at least two bottles of India pale ale in any case.
    • Because of the juristic difficulties associated with the Donation of Constantine, the question of whether the papacy had in any case prescribed its jurisdiction in the patrimony had become a common topic amongst jurists […] 1987, Joseph Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, page 53:
    • It is not clear that this particular legal question has ever been a determining factor in any case to date.

Coordinates

come what may

Synonyms

by any measure · regardless · whatever the case may be · at any rate · anyway · in any event · in any event · whatever the case may be · anyhow · at all events · at all events · at any rate

Translations (99)

ga ar chuma ar bith (at any rate) · az istənilən halda (at any rate) · fr en tout état de cause (at any rate) · ru в любо́м слу́чае (at any rate) · de auf jeden Fall (at any rate) · ar عَلَى أَيِّ حَالٍ (at any rate) · nl in elk geval (at any rate) · la utīque (at any rate) · fi joka tapauksessa (at any rate) · bg във все́ки слу́чай (at any rate) · hy համենայն դեպս (at any rate) · fr en tout cas (at any rate) · pl tak czy inaczej (at any rate) · cmn 不管怎樣 /不管怎样 (at any rate) · ko 어쨌든 (at any rate) · gl sexa como for (at any rate) · pt de todo o modo (at any rate) · pl w każdym razie (at any rate) · de unbedingt (at any rate) · it in ogni caso (at any rate) · fa علیایحال (at any rate) · ja 何しろ (at any rate) · pl tak czy owak (at any rate) · gl de calquera xeito (at any rate) · gd co-dhiù (at any rate) · bo ཇི་ལྟར (at any rate) · de trotzdem (at any rate) · be у ко́жным ра́зе (at any rate) · pt seja como for (at any rate) · uk так чи іна́кше (at any rate) · cmn 無論如何 /无论如何 (at any rate) · az hər halda (at any rate) · sh у сваком случају (at any rate) · cs v každém případě (at any rate) · sh u svakom slučaju (at any rate) · eo ĉiaokaze (at any rate) · de sowieso (at any rate) · mi ahakoa he aha (at any rate) · nl sowieso (at any rate) · mk во секој случај (at any rate) · gd co-dhiù no co-dheth (at any rate) · bo གང་ལྟར (at any rate) · cmn 反正 (at any rate) · ca en qualsevol cas (at any rate) · sv hur som helst (at any rate) · ur بَہَر حال (at any rate) · oc de tot biais (at any rate) · cs každopádně (at any rate) · uk у вся́кому ра́зі (at any rate) · rsk у каждим случаю (at any rate) · es en todo caso (at any rate) · es en cualquier caso (at any rate) · ga ar aon nós (at any rate) · sv i alla fall (at any rate) · ca en tot cas (at any rate) · ru так и́ли и́на́че (at any rate) · be так ці іна́кш (at any rate) · ru в любо́м де́ле (at any rate) · nb i alle fall (at any rate) · el εν πάση περιπτώσει (at any rate) · pt de todo modo (at any rate) · oc en tot cas (at any rate) · nl in ieder geval (at any rate) · pt em todo o caso (at any rate) · gl sicasí (at any rate) · be ва ўся́кім ра́зе (at any rate) · pt de qualquer forma (at any rate) · ast sicasí (at any rate) · gl en todo caso (at any rate) · tg ба ҳар ҳол (at any rate) · he בכל מקרה (at any rate) · ga pé scéal é (at any rate) · be так ці іна́чай (at any rate) · el πάντως (at any rate) · bg както и да е (at any rate) · fi miten vain (at any rate) · eo ĉiuokaze (at any rate) · pl bądź co bądź (at any rate) · hu mindenesetre (at any rate) · el όπως και να έχει (at any rate) · fi oli miten oli (at any rate) · sk v každom prípade (at any rate) · bo ཇི་ལྟར་ཡང (at any rate) · ru ка́к бы то ни́ было (at any rate) · ja とにかく (at any rate) · is í öllu falli (at any rate) · pdt jeedenfauls (at any rate) · de jedenfalls (at any rate) · bo གང་ལྟར་ཡང (at any rate) · ru во вся́ком слу́чае (at any rate) · fa به هر حال (at any rate) · be ва ўся́кім вы́падку (at any rate) · ro în orice caz (at any rate) · et igatahes (at any rate) · et igal juhul (at any rate) · ga ar aon chuma (at any rate) · pl tak czy siak (at any rate) · gsw allwääg (at any rate) · ga ar aon chaoi (at any rate)