Meanings
- When the time is right; presently; eventually.
The kitchen will be painted in due course.
3 more examples
The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56.
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713If something utterly dreadful happens to you, shrug it off, put it down to experience and, in due course, turn it into an anecdote.
2016 June 9, Caroline Taggart, Her Ladyship's Guide to the Art of Conversation, Batsford Books, →ISBNMarch 14, 2018', Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary […] he began to set his sights on some of the most fundamental questions concerning the physical nature of the universe. In due course, he would achieve extraordinary successes against the severest physical disabilities.
Synonyms: all in good time, in due time, in good time, when the time comes, time is ripe
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbWhen the time is right; presently; eventually.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbat the appropriate time
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 在適當的時候 /在适当的时候
- 在適當的時候 /在适当的时候 (zài shìdàng de shíhou)when the time is right
Dutch te zijner tijd
- te zijner tijdwhen the time is right
Esperanto post iom da tempo
- post iom da tempowhen the time is right
Finnish aikanaan
- aikanaanwhen the time is right
French au moment voulu, en temps voulu
- au moment vouluwhen the time is right
- en temps vouluwhen the time is right
- le moment venuwhen the time is right
- en temps utilewhen the time is right
- en temps et en heurewhen the time is right
Māori nāwai rā, nāwai nāwai
- nāwai rāwhen the time is right
- nāwai nāwaiwhen the time is right
Polish we właściwym czasie
- we właściwym czasiewhen the time is right
Russian в своё вре́мя, до́лжным о́бразом
- в своё вре́мя (v svojó vrémja)when the time is right
- до́лжным о́бразом (dólžnym óbrazom)when the time is right
- своевре́менно (svojevrémenno)when the time is right
Slovak zavčasu, zavčas
- zavčasuwhen the time is right
- zavčaswhen the time is right
- včasnewhen the time is right
Swedish i sinom tid
- i sinom tidwhen the time is right
Cite this entry
in due course. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20due%20course
“in due course.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20due%20course. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “in due course,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20due%20course.
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