"worst-case" meaning in English

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      "word": "best-case"
    }
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In a worst-case scenario, according to the ILO, 51 million jobs could be lost in 2009.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 18, Paul Clifton, “We have always cleaned trains. Now, we are sanitising them”, in Rail, pages 32–33",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "In the least favorable of all possible circumstances."
      ],
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        [
          "least",
          "least"
        ],
        [
          "favorable",
          "favorable"
        ],
        [
          "circumstances",
          "circumstances"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "best-case"
        },
        {
          "word": "worst-case"
        },
        {
          "word": "worst-case analysis"
        },
        {
          "word": "worst-case scenario"
        },
        {
          "word": "worst-case execution time"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "worst-case"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "best-case"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "worst-case (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "best-case"
    },
    {
      "word": "worst-case"
    },
    {
      "word": "worst-case analysis"
    },
    {
      "word": "worst-case scenario"
    },
    {
      "word": "worst-case execution time"
    }
  ],
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        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In a worst-case scenario, according to the ILO, 51 million jobs could be lost in 2009.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 18, Paul Clifton, “We have always cleaned trains. Now, we are sanitising them”, in Rail, pages 32–33",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the least favorable of all possible circumstances."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "least",
          "least"
        ],
        [
          "favorable",
          "favorable"
        ],
        [
          "circumstances",
          "circumstances"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "worst-case"
}