1. Alter direction or planned action
   "The company changed course after receiving negative feedback"; "The ship changed course to avoid the storm"
    
2. (nautical) shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a vessel to the other while sailing before the wind
   "The crew changed course to avoid the storm";
   - jibe, gybe [Brit, Cdn], jib

Derived forms: changing course, changed course, changes course

Type of: sail