course of action

1. 1.

   a mode of action

   “if you persist in that course you will surely fail”

   “once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place”

   Synonymscourse

   Broaderaction

   Narrowerblind alleycollision courseway

Questions about course of action

What does course of action mean?

course of action means "a mode of action".

What is another word for course of action?

Close synonyms include course. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is course of action a common word?

course of action 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.