worst case


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worst case

n
a. a situation in which the most unfavourable conditions prevail
b. (as modifier): a worst-case projection of a massive accident.
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worst case

nSchlimmstfall m, → ungünstigster Fall
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But I trust that, in the worst case, we may obtain a pardon for the sake of the innocent who are involved."
"I told you it wasn't the worst case. I stayed on in that house from which I nearly ran away in my nightgown.
"Tess," he added, with a sigh of discontent,--"yours was the very worst case I ever was concerned in!
"It's a bad case--it's a bad case--it's the worst case I ever met.
Our good mistress--always hopeful even in the worst cases, as you know--thinks she is feeling ashamed of herself, and is too proud and self-willed to own it.
We had most just after breakfast, but now the porter's heading off the worst cases, and that last chap was the first for twenty minutes.
In a research note titled "Everybody Just Chill: Stock Action Already Pricing In Worst Case Scenario," Piper Jaffray analyst Christopher Raymond maintains an Overweight rating on shares of Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) following the institution of Amgen's (AMGN) inter partes review challenges on three Soliris patents.
"We remember attending a briefing on privy council terms which they said was not worst case but reasonable worst case.
Note that in a worst case where the rate of return falls to 3.6 percent, the 4 percent rule fails both objectives, running dry at age 95.
But, because the Merseyside Resilience Forum (MRF), which compiles the list, has to plan for every worst case, that doesn't necessarily mean these events will happen.
Cash management is fairly easy if there are reliable cash-flow forecasts, with "reliable" meaning "worst case" assumptions rather than hopes.