[ UK /ɹɪkˈɔːs/ ]
[ US /ˈɹikɔɹs/ ]
NOUN
  1. act of turning to for assistance
    an appeal to his uncle was his last resort
    have recourse to the courts
  2. something or someone turned to for assistance or security
    his only recourse was the police
    took refuge in lying
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How To Use recourse In A Sentence

  • As a result, some politicians have begun to think of war, not as the high-risk recourse of last resort, but as an attractive foreign policy option in times of domestic scandal or economic decline.
  • Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies. Les Miserables
  • Now, the Pastons had recourse to the courts, but also felt able to join the political conflict themselves.
  • If you violate the country's camera use rules, they may confiscate your equipment and we have absolutely no recourse.
  • So, a private individual is entitled to automatic recourse if a supplier fails to deliver, but a company may not.
  • They are a means of keeping the constitution in tune with changing political circumstances without recourse to legislation.
  • She made a complete recovery without recourse to surgery.
  • The priests of one settlement have their own special deities to whom they and their relatives have recourse, while the priests of another settlement have another set of deities for their tutelaries, with whom they intercede, either for themselves or for such of their friends as may need assistance. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
  • And unless I make haste to circumvent this prepotent beast I am lost without recourse; and how well saith the poet, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Many of these workers are undocumented immigrants who have little recourse to legal action if they are injured on the job.
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