change of course

1. 1.

   a change in the direction that you are moving

   Broaderchange of direction

   Narrowerturntack

Questions about change of course

What does change of course mean?

change of course means "a change in the direction that you are moving".

Is change of course a common word?

change of course is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.