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  1. worst case scenarionoun

    Any situation or conclusion which could not be any worse; the worst possible outcome.

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  1. worst case scenario

    A worst-case scenario is a concept in risk management wherein the planner, in planning for potential disasters, considers the most severe possible outcome that can reasonably be projected to occur in a given situation. Conceiving of worst-case scenarios is a common form of strategic planning, specifically scenario planning, to prepare for and minimize contingencies that could result in accidents, quality problems, or other issues.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Worst Case Scenario in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Worst Case Scenario in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Worst Case Scenario in a Sentence

  1. Daniel Swain:

    As disruptive and as damaging as this year’s flooding has been, it’s still nowhere near close to what we foresee is the plausible worst-case scenario, we know that climate change is essentially putting the weather on steroids and giving us greater and greater chances of seeing these extremely heavy precipitation events and severe floods, even as we also see more severe droughts and that in the same part of the world.

  2. Tennis Australia Chief Executive Tiley:

    Worst-case scenario is no AO, our best-case scenario at this point is having an AO with players that we can get in here with quarantining techniques and Australian-only fans.

  3. Neil Shearing:

    As the virus spreads, there's a good chance that that' worst case' scenario quickly becomes the most likely scenario.

  4. Governor Andrew Cuomo:

    If we stop acting the way we are acting, you will see those numbers go up, we can't handle the worst-case scenario.

  5. The Ladsous memo:

    Current planning considers that any United Nations uniformed deployment would be a measure of last resort, where political dialogue and preventative deployments have failed to avert widespread conflict and where no first-responder-nation or coalition-of-the-willing has stepped forward, but a truly worst-case scenario will result in a scale of violence beyond the United Nations capacity to protect.


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  • nella peggiore delle ipotesiItalian
  • худший вариант развития событийRussian
  • найгірший випадокUkrainian
  • 最坏的情况是Chinese

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