"due course" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-due course.ogg [Australia] Forms: due courses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} due course (usually uncountable, plural due courses)
  1. (idiomatic) Regular or appropriate passage or occurrence Tags: idiomatic, uncountable, usually Derived forms: in due course
    Sense id: en-due_course-en-noun-yNHjNsKK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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