Matter Of Course

Definition: Matter Of Course

Matter Of Course

Noun

1. An inevitable ending.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Matter Of Course

Certainty

Adverb: certainly; Adjective: for certain, certes, sure, no doubt, doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto, sure enough, to be sure, of course, as a matter of course, a coup sur, to a certainty; in truth; (truly); at any rate, at all events; without fail; coute que coute, coute qu'il coute; whatever may happen, if the worst come to the worst; come what may, happen what may, come what will; sink or swim; rain or shine.

Conformity

Adverb: conformably; Adjective: by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as usual, ad instar, instar omnium; more solito, more-majorum. for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro forma, for form's sake, by the card.

Demonstration

Follow, follow of course, follow as a matter of course, follow necessarily; stand to reason; hold good, hold water.

Adverb: of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course; necessarily, of necessity.

Expectance

Adverb: naturally, as a matter of course.

Impulse

Common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground.

Crosswords: Matter Of Course

The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But Lady Muriel seemed to take it quite as a matter of course.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Nigeria

Spurred by Nigeria's high tariff policies (the Nigerian Government derives a significant portion of its revenue from tariff collections), importers routinely practice tariff avoidance, for example by under-invoicing shipments and, as a matter of course, through bribery of customs and port officials. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "matter of course": a matter of course ♦ as a matter of course ♦ matter of course approach. Additional references.

Albanian

siç priret, natyror (inartificial, native, natural, naturalistic, radical, unaffected, unstarched, untaught), natyrisht (certainly, naturally, of course, surely, you bet), i natyrshëm (artless, inartificial, inborn, inbred, native, natural, unstudied), gjë e natyrshme, automatikisht (automatically, blindly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, bright, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, neat, obvious, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, readable, robust, serene, sharp, silver, silvery, Square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed, vivid), в реда на нещата, нещо което е в реда на нещата, естествен (artless, honorary, ingenuous, innate, living, native, natural, simple, spontaneous, unceremonious, uncoined, unpretending, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstarched, unstrained, untaught, untutored). (various references)

Czech

samozřejmá vìc. (various references)

Finnish

on sanomattakin selvää (it goes without saying, it is a matter of course), luonnollinen asia (a matter of course), itseoikeutettu (as a matter of course, ex officio). (various references)

German

Selbstverständlichkeit (casualness, implicitness, naturalness, self-evidence). (various references)

Hebrew 

ע� י� י (actual, businesslike, forthright, objective, pertinent, practical, relevant). (various references)

Hungarian

magától értetõdõ dolog, természetes (axiomatic, axiomatical, easy, genial, inartificial, ingenuous, natural, unadulterated, unartful, unstudied), közvetlen (direct, direct drive, genial, hard by, immediate, informal, near at hand, proximate, shirt-sleeve, shirttail, straightaway). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

自ずから (as a matter of course, naturally), �"然　 (as a matter of course, naturally), �"然 (as a matter of course, naturally). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おのずから (as a matter of course, naturally), とうぜ�" (a wax gourd, as a matter of course, east bank, eastern coast, eastward advance, enraptured, entranced, intoxicated, naturally). (various references)

Pig Latin

attermay ofay oursecay.(various references)

Portuguese

coisa natural. (various references)

Romanian

natural (careless, certainly, easy, genuine, home-bred, innocent, kind, lifelike, native, natural, naturally, physical, primitive, real, reasonably, simple, undisguised, unsophisticated, unvarnished), lucru de la sine înţeles, firesc (careless, innate, native, natural, naturally, undisguised, unschooled), de la sine înţeles. (various references)

Russian 

ясный (articulate, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, definite, direct, distinct, fine, lucid, obvious, pellucid, perspicuous, pronounced, self-explanatory, unshadowed, vivid), само собой разумеющийся, естественный (inartificial, matter-of course, native, natural, physic, unschooled, unstudied), дело естественное. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koji se podrazumeva (implied). (various references)

Spanish

natural (artless, coming, core, disposition, easy, elemental, fresh, lifelike, matter of fact, native, natural, nature, of course, plain, simple, temper, unstudied), cosa normal. (various references)

Swedish

självfallenhet, naturlig (artless, constitutional, gut, homespun, inartificial, inborn, indigenous, inelaborate, innate, natural, unaffected, unsophisticated, untaught). (various references)

Turkish

tabii olarak (as a matter of course), doğal olarak (as a matter of course, inherently, innately, intrinsically, naturally). (various references)

Ukrainian

само собою зрозумілий, неминучий (avoidless, cocksure, foregone, imminent, ineluctable, inevitable, infallible, necessary, pending, resistless, shunless, unavoidable, undeclinable), природний (artless, careless, connatural, elemental, inbred, indigenous, native, natural, physic, radical, unartful, unlabored, unlaboured, untaught, untutored). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc tất nhiên, tất nhiên (assuredly, certainly, natural, naturally), đương nhiên (course, natural). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: tetramerous.

-4 letters: cofeatures, comforters, forcemeats, forecaster, forecourts, formatters, mercurates, octameters, outercoats, rectorates, reformates, rotameters.

-5 letters: aftermost, amorettos, castoreum, cofeature, comforter, corotates, cotrustee, creatures, cremators, eructates, factotums, footraces, forcemeat, forecourt, foretaste, formatter, fourscore, fractures, frotteurs, frustrate, mercurate, motorcars, mutterers, octameter, orometers, outercoat, outermost, rearmouse, rectorate, reformate, reformats, resurface, retroacts, rooftrees, roomettes, rotameter, rotatores, sarcomere.

+5 letters: counterreformations.