matter of course

Speech parts

1. matter of course - Noun

2. matter of course - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

an inevitable ending

expected or depended upon as a natural or logical outcome

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

matter-of-course

Synonyms

foregone conclusion form practice rule convention cinch pattern procedure custom routine habit certainty customarily inevitability wont
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Antonyms

chance opportunity probability possibility occasion deviation
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Hypernyms

ending conclusion finish

Examples

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the Reich was a matter of course for all National Socialists and for true Germans in Austria. Arthur Seyss-Inquart

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it. Diana Wynne Jones

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. Gustav Stresemann

Sometimes it's heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they've become. Maybe that's why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course. Jonathan Tropper

Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it. Tzvetan Todorov

Close letter words and terms

Matter of Britain matter of consequence matter of contention matter of factly matter of form matter of honor