- a description of how things might happen in the future
- Let me suggest a possible scenario.
- The worst-case scenario (= the worst possible thing that could happen) would be for the factory to be closed down.
- a nightmare scenario
Extra Examples- Similar scenarios are playing out across the country.
- The more likely scenario is that interest rates will rise.
- Under any of these scenarios, the company will run into debt.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- likely
- plausible
- possible
- …
- consider
- imagine
- construct
- …
- play out
- unfold
- in a/the scenario
- under a/the scenario
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- a written outline of what happens in a film or play synonym synopsisTopics Film and theatreb2
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Italian, from Latin scena ‘scene’.
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