worst-case

adj

worst-case

adj

1

In the least favorable of all possible circumstances.

In a worst-case scenario, according to the ILO, 51 million jobs could be lost in 2009.
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.2020 November 18, Paul Clifton, “We have always cleaned trains. Now, we are sanitising them”, in Rail, pages 32–33:

Antonyms: best-case
Derived terms: worst-case scenario

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