meaning of resort
1. Active power or movement; spring.
2. To go; to repair; to betake ones self.
3. To fall back; to revert.
4. To have recourse; to apply; to ones self for help, relief, or advantage.
5. The act of going to, or making application; a betaking ones self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.
6. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
7. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
8. act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last
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Related Words
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