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cour|gette /kʊə ^r ʒe t/ (courgettes ) N‑VAR Courgettes are long thin vegetables with dark green skin. [BRIT ] in AM, use zucchini

cou|ri|er ◆◇◇ /kʊ riə ^r / (couriers , couriering , couriered )

1 N‑COUNT A courier is a person who is paid to take letters and parcels direct from one place to another. □  The cheques were delivered to the bank by a private courier firm.

2 N‑COUNT A courier is a person employed by a travel company to look after people who are on holiday.

3 VERB If you courier something somewhere, you send it there by courier. □ [V n + to ] I couriered it to Darren in New York. [Also V n]

course ◆◆◆ /kɔː ^r s/ (courses , coursing , coursed )

1Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course .

2 N‑UNCOUNT [oft a N ] The course of a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, is the route along which it is travelling. □  The pilot requested clearance to alter course to avoid the storm. □  The tug was seaward of the Hakai Passage on a course that diverged from the Calvert Island coastline.

3 N‑COUNT [usu sing] A course of action is an action or a series of actions that you can do in a particular situation. □ [+ of ] My best course of action was to help Gill by being loyal, loving and endlessly sympathetic. □ [+ for ] Vietnam is trying to decide on its course for the future.

4 N‑SING You can refer to the way that events develop as, for example, the course of history or the course of events . □ [+ of ] …a series of decisive naval battles which altered the course of history.

5 N‑COUNT A course is a series of lessons or lectures on a particular subject. □ [+ in ] …a course in business administration. □ [+ on ] I'm shortly to begin a course on the modern novel.

6 → see also access course , correspondence course , refresher course , sandwich course

7 N‑COUNT A course of medical treatment is a series of treatments that a doctor gives someone. □ [+ of ] Treatment is supplemented with a course of antibiotics to kill the bacterium.

8 N‑COUNT A course is one part of a meal. □  The lunch was excellent, especially the first course. □  …a three-course dinner.

9 N‑COUNT In sport, a course is an area of land where races are held or golf is played, or the land over which a race takes place. □  Only 12 seconds separated the first three riders on the Bickerstaffe course.

10 N‑COUNT The course of a river is the channel along which it flows. □  Romantic chateaux and castles overlook the river's twisting course.

11 PHRASE If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time. □  In the course of the 1930s, steel production in Britain approximately doubled. □  We struck up a conversation, in the course of which it emerged that he was a sailing man.

12 PHRASE If you do something as a matter of course , you do it as part of your normal work or way of life. □  If police are carrying arms as a matter of course then doesn't it encourage criminals to carry them?

13 PHRASE If a ship or aircraft is on course , it is travelling along the correct route. If it is off course , it is no longer travelling along the correct route. □  The ill-fated ship was sent off course into shallow waters and rammed by another vessel.

14 PHRASE If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it. □  The company is on course for profits of £20m in the next financial year.