Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In bookbinding: The making of cases or covers in which sewed books are bound, A book glued on the back and stuck into a cover prepared beforehand to receive it.
  • noun In printing, typesetting; composition.

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Examples

  • It would be hard for them to say anything I guess because what MP wants to be heard talking about reducing their constituency case-work?

    Archive 2009-06-01 Mark Reckons 2009

  • However I wonder if things may be swinging too far and that MPs can sometimes be swamped with case-work and issues that in some cases they are perhaps not the best placed person to deal with.

    MP pastoral duties - Let's have a heated debate! Mark Reckons 2009

  • Amy Klobuchar says she will be asking for money for extra staff so she can take over the case-work load of constitutant services that have been in process in Norm's offices, as apparently as of Jan 6th he will no longer have Senate paid office staff.

    Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep A Franken Win Bottled Up For Weeks 2009

  • Amy Klobuchar says she will be asking for money for extra staff so she can take over the case-work load of constitutant services that have been in process in Norm's offices, as apparently as of Jan 6th he will no longer have Senate paid office staff.

    Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep A Franken Win Bottled Up For Weeks 2009

  • It would be hard for them to say anything I guess because what MP wants to be heard talking about reducing their constituency case-work?

    MP pastoral duties - Let's have a heated debate! Mark Reckons 2009

  • However I wonder if things may be swinging too far and that MPs can sometimes be swamped with case-work and issues that in some cases they are perhaps not the best placed person to deal with.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Mark Reckons 2009

  • If this is what's going on, it's a breach of confidentiality under data protection laws and a mis-use of public money elected members case-work funds.

    New cash row involves Labour AMs 2007

  • Hizbullah realized that: and selected candidates who do “case-work” as we call it in American politics.

    Tuesday, January 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • Hizbullah realized that: and selected candidates who do “case-work” as we call it in American politics.

    Friday, January 27, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • Bruce Butler, the special case-work lawyer for the CPS, said that he'd need a statement from me to show the probity of the covert operation and to explain how it was designed to lead towards the implication or the elimination of the suspect.

    The Jigsaw Man Britton, Paul, 1946- 1997

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