course of action
Plan going forward
A course of action is a plan or strategy for dealing with a situation.
The phrase implies deliberate choice among alternatives: We need to decide on a course of action before the deadline.
It often appears in formal or professional contexts—business planning, military strategy, legal proceedings.
The best course of action is to wait and see.
Detailed proposal for achieving
- approachWay of handling something
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- blueprintDetailed technical drawing
- roadmapDetailed plan forward
gameplan · masterplan · policy · initiative · proposal · agenda · design · framework
Prescribed sequence of actions
- processSteps toward a result
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
- methodOrderly way of doing
- techniqueSkilled way of performing
system · steps · workflow · guideline · practice · routine · mechanism · algorithm
Ordered succession of elements
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- stagesDistinct periods or platforms
- phasesDistinct periods in sequence
steps · milestones · trajectory · momentum · headway · transition · movement · passage
Deliberate tactical movement
- tacticsMethods to achieve goals
- flankingAt the sides of
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
- offensiveCausing displeasure or attack-oriented
defensive · siege · counterattack · raid · reconnaissance · infiltration · retreat · advance
plan
Detailed proposal for achieving
- approachWay of handling something
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- blueprintDetailed technical drawing
roadmap · gameplan · masterplan · policy · initiative · proposal · agenda · design · framework · program
procedure
Prescribed sequence of actions
technique · system · steps · workflow · guideline · practice · routine · mechanism · algorithm · model
sequence
Ordered succession of elements
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- stagesDistinct periods or platforms
phases · steps · milestones · trajectory · momentum · headway · transition · movement · passage · unfolding
maneuver
Deliberate tactical movement
offensive · defensive · siege · counterattack · raid · reconnaissance · infiltration · retreat · advance · deployment
- approachesapproach, approaches, method, methods, way
course of actiondrifting
Moving without purpose
randomness · meandering · aimlessness · purposelessness · floundering
course of actioninaction
Deliberate nonmovement
inactivity · passivity · doing nothing · paralysis · idleness
course of actionindecision
Failure to decide
indecisiveness · hesitation · vacillation · dithering · waffling
course, action, actions, courses, discourse, recourse, discourses, recourses