in one case

1. 1.

   on one occasion

   “once I ran into her”

   Synonymsonceone time

Questions about in one case

What does in one case mean?

in one case means "on one occasion".

What is another word for in one case?

Close synonyms include once, one time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in one case a common word?

in one case is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.