in case of

English

Preposition

in case of

1. If there should be.

   Take an umbrella in case of rain.

   In case of emergency, break glass.

   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎^[1]:

     Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.

Synonyms

• (if there should be): in the event of

Related terms

• in case (conjunction)
• just in case

Translations

in the event of

• Arabic: فِي حَال (fī ḥāl), إِذ مَا (ʔiḏ mā), فِيمَا لَوْ (fīmā law)

  Egyptian Arabic: اذا (eza)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 如果 (zh) (rúguǒ), 萬一まんいち／万一まんいち (zh) (wànyī)

• Finnish: siinä tapauksessa että, siltä varalta että, mikäli (fi)
• French: en cas de (fr)
• German: falls (de), im Falle
• Greek: σしぐまεいぷしろん περίπτωση (se períptosi)
• Hungarian: esetére, esetén (hu)
• Italian: in caso (it), eventualmente (it)
• Japanese: もし〜ならば (moshi ... naraba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: i tilfelle (av)

  Nynorsk: i tilfelle (av)

• Persian: در صورتی که (dar surati ke) (with verbal phrases), در صورت (dar surat-e) (with nominal phrases)
• Polish: w razie (pl), na wypadek, w sytuacji (pl)
• Portuguese: caso (pt)
• Russian: в слу́чае (ru) (v slúčaje), на слу́чай (na slúčaj)
• Spanish: por si acaso (es)
• Swedish: ifall (sv), i det fall, i händelse av (sv)
• Telugu: ఒకవేళ (te) (okavēḷa)
• Walloon: si e cas (wa) (+ verb in conditional tense), po si e cas (wa) (+ verb in conditional tense)
• West Frisian: om it gefal

References

• “in case of”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “in case of”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• cafenios