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WCS

WCS is the initialism of worst-case scenario.

WCS is the abbreviation of Western Canadian Select.

WCS is the initialism of Williams-Campbell syndrome.

Meaning of worst-case scenario

Noun

worst-case scenario (plural worst-case scenarios)

  1. Any situation or conclusion which could not be any worse; the worst possible outcome.
    • Everyone is rightly planning for the worst-case scenario. Across Europe, that worst-case scenario is already playing out.2020 March 25, “Network News: What COVID-19 means for rail in a wider transport context”, in Rail, page 10

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Meaning of Western Canadian Select

Proper noun

Western Canadian Select

  1. (oil industry) A heavy sour blend of crude oil that is one of North America's largest heavy crude oil streams.
    Synonyms:
    WCS

Noun capitalized: WCs

WCs

  1. (plural) plural of WC

Forms of WCS

pluralWCSs
pluralWCSes

Questions about WCS

What is WCS the initialism of?
WCS is the initialism of worst-case scenario.
What part of speech is WCS?
WCS is a noun.
What is the plural of WCS?
The plural of WCS is WCSs.

Words near WCS in the dictionary

  1. WCNSF
  2. WCNSFs
  3. WCP
  4. WCPGW
  5. WCR
  6. WCS
  7. WCSes
  8. WCSs
  9. WCTU
  10. WCW
  11. wd

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: WCS (page history and authors); WCs (page history and authors); worst-case scenario (page history and authors); Western Canadian Select (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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