Wiktionary
n. A plan; a set of intended actions, through which one intends to achieve a goal.
WordNet
n. 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" [syn: course]
Usage examples of "course of action".
Then Rosalie's words had returned to him, and he determined his course of action.
There was just no course of action open to me which did not do someone an injury.
Piling his wood together, and succeeding after many efforts, by the aid of a flint and the ring which yet clung to his ankle, in lighting a fire, and warming his chilled limbs in its cheering blaze, he set himself to meditate upon his course of action.
The unhappy man, torn by remorse and passion, had resolved upon a course of action which seemed to him a penance for his crime of deceit.
As I walked towards the hall, trying to determine a course of action, Claude Jeremiah Greengrass and Alfred, his scruffy dog, emerged from Claude's old truck outside the pub.
He ground his fists into his temples, and for a moment pretended to himself that he was trying to arrive at a decision, to map out a course of action.
Well, despite my proving the body to indeed be the merchants, and Sir Nigels impatience to expose the crime, such course of action could not be followed through to success.
Lying awake in the night, with the jack-knife ready to his hand, he had decided on the course of action that must be adopted.
The point of looking at risks would be to see if your course of action is reasonable.
He sometimes regrets his mistakes, but his way of handling them is not to undo what he has done but to take a new course of action.
If the course of action that I may advise you to pursue should alarm you, be assured it is dictated by the strongest feelings of regard for your welfare.
It is possible that I may be in a position then to indicate some course of action.
Cinching up their dark rain slickers the boys sat a moment to plan their next course of action.
He had merely told me to think about it and come up with the best course of action we might pursue.
The practical course of action for us, as religious men, would therefore, it seems to me, not be simply to turn our backs upon the ascetic impulse, as most of us to-day turn them, but rather to discover some outlet for it of which the fruits in the way of privation and hardship might be objectively useful.