in the usual/normal/ordinary course of business

idiom

: as part of doing regular business
payments made in the usual/normal/ordinary course of business

Examples of in the usual/normal/ordinary course of business in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The bank issued the loans in the normal course of business, and with similar interest rates and collateral as other customers received around the same time, according to the filing. Noah Buhayar, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023 Identification card issued by an employer in the normal course of business, which has a photograph of the cardholder (not a business card). Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023 The issue, said Jay L. Westbrook, a University of Texas bankruptcy law professor, is whether the court rules the transfers of wealth were made in the ordinary course of business. Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022 Kevin Downey, an attorney for Ms. Holmes, said that the Theranos lab ran more than 8 million blood tests, and some errors are to be expected in the normal course of business. Heather Somerville, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022 State prosecutors, in the normal course of business, had a contract with a private laboratory to search the open source database for matches to crime scene evidence. Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2021

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Dictionary Entries Near in the usual/normal/ordinary course of business

in the twinkle/twinkling of an eye

in the usual/normal/ordinary course of business

in the vicinity of

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“In the usual/normal/ordinary course of business.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20usual%2Fnormal%2Fordinary%20course%20of%20business. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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