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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun course of action has 1 sense

• course of action(n = noun.act) course - 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"
is a kind of action
has particulars: blind alley, collision course, path, way, way of life

THESAURUS

course of action

action, ad hoc measure, answer, artifice, contrivance, countermove, coup, demarche, device, dodge, effort, expedient, gimmick, improvisation, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, last expedient, last resort, last shift, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, move, pis aller, resort, resource, shake-up, shift, solution, step, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, tactic, temporary expedient, trick, trump, working hypothesis, working proposition

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