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15 PHRASE If something runs its course or takes its course , it develops naturally and comes to a natural end. □  Over 20,000 cows died before the epidemic ran its course.

16 PHRASE If you stay the course , you finish something that you have started, even though it has become very difficult. □  The oldest president in American history had stayed the course for two terms.

17 PHRASE If something changes or becomes true in the course of time , it changes or becomes true over a long period of time. □  In the course of time, many of their myths become entangled.

18in due course → see due SYNONYMS course NOUN 5

curriculum:…the history curriculum.

studies:She gave up her studies to have Alexander.

module:These courses are organized into three four-week modules.

cou rse book (course books ) also coursebook N‑COUNT A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.

cou rse work also coursework N‑UNCOUNT Course work is work that students do during a course, rather than in exams, especially work that counts towards a student's final grade. □  Some 20 per cent of marks are awarded for coursework.

cours|ing /kɔː ^r s I ŋ/ N‑UNCOUNT Coursing is a sport in which rabbits or hares are hunted with dogs.

court

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➊ court ◆◆◆ /kɔː ^r t/ (courts )

1 N‑COUNT [oft n N , N n, oft in/at N ] A court is a place where legal matters are decided by a judge and jury or by a magistrate. □  At this rate, we could find ourselves in the divorce courts! □  …a county court judge. □  He was deported on a court order following a conviction for armed robbery. □  The 28-year-old striker was in court last week for breaking a rival player's jaw.

2 N‑COUNT You can refer to the people in a court, especially the judge, jury, or magistrates, as a court . □  A court at Tampa, Florida has convicted five officials on fraud charges.

3 N‑COUNT [oft on/off N ] A court is an area in which you play a game such as tennis, basketball, badminton, or squash. □  The hotel has several tennis and squash courts. □  She watched a few of the games while waiting to go on court.

4 N‑COUNT [oft with poss, oft at N ] The court of a king or queen is the place where he or she lives and carries out ceremonial or administrative duties. □ [+ of ] She came to visit England, where she was presented at the court of James I.

5 → see also Crown Court , High Court , kangaroo court

6 PHRASE If you go to court or take someone to court , you take legal action against them. □  They have received at least twenty thousand pounds each but had gone to court to demand more. □  …members of trade associations who want to take bad debtors to court.

7 PHRASE If someone holds court in a place, they are surrounded by a lot of people who are paying them a lot of attention because they are interesting or famous. □  …in the days when Marlene Dietrich and Ernest Hemingway held court in the famous El Floridita club.

8 PHRASE If a legal matter is decided or settled out of court , it is decided without legal action being taken in a court of law. □  …a payment of two million pounds in an out of court settlement.

➋ court /kɔː ^r t/ (courts , courting , courted )

1 VERB To court a particular person, group, or country means to try to please them or improve your relations with them, often so that they will do something that you want them to do. [JOURNALISM ] □ [V n] Commercial radio stations are courting listeners who prefer different types of music.