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worst-case en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In the least favorable of all possible circumstances.
In a worst-case scenario, according to the ILO, 51 million jobs could be lost in 2009.
In the summer, the RSSB calculated that passengers stood a 1-in-11,000 chance of catching COVID-19 on a train - a statistic it felt was actually a worst-case figure, with the risk probably even lower.
2020 November 18, Paul Clifton, “We have always cleaned trains. Now, we are sanitising them”, in Rail, pages 32–33:
Antonyms
best-case
Deriveds
worst-case scenario