"caseload" meaning in English

See caseload in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: caseloads [plural]
Etymology: case + load Etymology templates: {{compound|en|case|load}} case + load Head templates: {{en-noun}} caseload (plural caseloads)
  1. The workload of a person or group that handles cases; the relative volume of cases expected to be worked upon.
    Sense id: en-caseload-en-noun-EnZI7ZGI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35
  2. The set of persons whose cases are being handled by such a worker or group.
    Sense id: en-caseload-en-noun-2ONEcuf0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (amount of cases to be handled): 辦案量 (Chinese Mandarin), 办案量 (Chinese Mandarin)
Disambiguation of 'amount of cases to be handled': 55 45

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for caseload meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "case",
        "3": "load"
      },
      "expansion": "case + load",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "case + load",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caseloads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "caseload (plural caseloads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "As a public defender, Jonas had a crushing caseload and never felt that he could prepare his clients' defenses properly."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The workload of a person or group that handles cases; the relative volume of cases expected to be worked upon."
      ],
      "id": "en-caseload-en-noun-EnZI7ZGI",
      "links": [
        [
          "workload",
          "workload"
        ],
        [
          "case",
          "case"
        ],
        [
          "relative",
          "relative"
        ],
        [
          "volume",
          "volume"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The set of persons whose cases are being handled by such a worker or group."
      ],
      "id": "en-caseload-en-noun-2ONEcuf0"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "55 45",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "amount of cases to be handled",
      "word": "辦案量"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "55 45",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "amount of cases to be handled",
      "word": "办案量"
    }
  ],
  "word": "caseload"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "case",
        "3": "load"
      },
      "expansion": "case + load",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "case + load",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caseloads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "caseload (plural caseloads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "As a public defender, Jonas had a crushing caseload and never felt that he could prepare his clients' defenses properly."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The workload of a person or group that handles cases; the relative volume of cases expected to be worked upon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "workload",
          "workload"
        ],
        [
          "case",
          "case"
        ],
        [
          "relative",
          "relative"
        ],
        [
          "volume",
          "volume"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The set of persons whose cases are being handled by such a worker or group."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "amount of cases to be handled",
      "word": "辦案量"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "amount of cases to be handled",
      "word": "办案量"
    }
  ],
  "word": "caseload"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.