OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 1632

case

/keɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
empaquetar
To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
estudiar el terreno • fichar
To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.
You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.