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resort

[ ri-zawrt ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to have recourse for use, help, or accomplishing something, often as a final available option or resource:

    to resort to war.

  2. to go, especially frequently or customarily:

    a beach to which many people resort.



noun

  1. a place to which people frequently or generally go for relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and recreation facilities for vacationers:

    a popular winter resort.

  2. habitual or general going, as to a place or person.
  3. use of or appeal to some person or thing for aid, satisfaction, service, etc.; resource:

    to have resort to force;

    a court of last resort.

  4. a person or thing resorted to for aid, satisfaction, service, etc.

resort

/ rɪˈzɔːt /

verb

  1. usually foll by to to have recourse (to) for help, use, etc

    to resort to violence

  2. to go, esp often or habitually; repair

    to resort to the beach

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a place to which many people go for recreation, rest, etc

    a holiday resort

  2. the use of something as a means, help, or recourse
  3. the act of going to a place, esp for recreation, rest, etc
  4. last resort
    the last possible course of action open to one
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • reˈsorter, noun
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Other Words From

  • prere·sort verb (used without object)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of resort1

First recorded in 1325–75; (for the verb) Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir, from re- re- + sortir “to go out, leave, escape” (perhaps ultimately from Latin sortīrī “to draw lots”); noun derivative of the verb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of resort1

C14: from Old French resortir to come out again, from re- + sortir to emerge
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Idioms and Phrases

see last resort .
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Example Sentences

You don’t have a huge demand of people who live in the Bahamas who also want to stay in a resort in the Bahamas.

From Fortune

Bikers flood the area after ski resorts close and before temperatures spike.

He saw going to court as a final resort for patching up the law’s inadequacies, not a principal tool for establishing it in the first place.

There were 1,471 votes cast out of 1,731 registered voters in the resort town.

One thing I think the government should have done more of is to just become the payer of first resort.

So filmmakers usually resort to a plot device to compensate for this absence.

The two scientific stories resort to the equivalent of Mathematics for Dummies andPhysics for Dummies.

Winter Resort operators are harnessing an unlikely source to power their operations: the sun.

Berkshire East ski resort near the Vermont border, which has 44 trails, has taken this power-production drive a step further.

For aesthetic reasons, ski resort operators try to limit the noise and infrastructure associated with producing power.

Nevertheless, when once issued, they made unnecessary any resort to additional Bank of England notes.

We must keep to the text and not resort to any foreign matter to help the feeble memory.

This method, too, once used in addition to what has been done by the pupil, will make a further resort to it unnecessary.

Then again amateurs may resort to the old French makers, some old English and the Tyrolean, which may be had cheaper still.

It is especially a winter resort, although the hotels keep open during the year.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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