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caseload

noun

Etymology

From case + load.

  1. derived from *leyt-✻
  2. inherited from *laidō✻
  3. inherited from lād
  4. inherited from lode
  5. compounded as caseload — “case + load”

Definitions

  1. The workload of a person or group that handles cases

    The workload of a person or group that handles cases; the relative volume of cases expected to be worked upon.

    • As a public defender, Jonas had a crushing caseload and never felt that he could prepare his clients' defenses properly.

  2. The set of persons whose cases are being handled by such a worker or group.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for caseload. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA