英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ɪn ˈkeɪs/

接続詞

in case

1. To allow for the possibility that.

   I'll take an umbrella, in case it rains.

   I’ve bought a chicken in case grandpa should stay to dine.

   Many's the day I've spent by the phone in case you called.

2. (chiefly Canada, US) If.

   In case you need me, I'll be home all day.

   • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 17:

     Whenever tempted to resume my sex, I was invariably met with the thought — what then? […] The chances were but few in case I resumed my other character, that I would be able to command the amount necessary for their [her children's] support.

同意語

• (to allow for the possibility that): in the event (conjunction)

関連する語

• in case of (preposition)
• in the event that
• just in case

参考

• lest

参照

• “just in case”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “in case”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Caines, Našice, aescin, casein, cesian