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CHANGE OF COURSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change of course mean? 

CHANGE OF COURSE (noun)
  The noun CHANGE OF COURSE has 1 sense:

1. a change in the direction that you are movingplay

  Familiarity information: CHANGE OF COURSE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHANGE OF COURSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A change in the direction that you are moving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("change of course" is a kind of...):

change of direction; reorientation (the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "change of course"):

turn; turning (the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course)

tack; tacking ((nautical) the act of changing tack)


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