recourse

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/ɹɪˈkɔːs/

noun

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01
noun
A possible source of help in a difficult situation.
02
noun
Extra detail
A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.

Examples

His last recourse will be to go to his father for help.
They had no other recourse but to apologize.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

Also pronounced

/ˈɹiːko(ː)ɹs/
/ˈɹiːkɔɹs/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation.
The act of seeking assistance or advice.
Access; admittance.

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All other means have fail'd to move her heart; / Our laſt recourſe is, therefore, to your Art.
Thus dyed this great Peer in the thirty sixth year of his age compleat, and three days over, in a time of great recourse unto him, and dependence upon him
[…] the flame departing and recoursing thrice ere the wood took strength to be sharper to consume […]

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Thus dyed this great Peer in the thirty sixth year of his age compleat, and three days over, in a time of great recourse unto him, and dependence upon him
1678, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World
All other means have fail'd to move her heart; / Our laſt recourſe is, therefore, to your Art.
1669 June (first performance), John Dryden, Tyrannick Love, or, The Royal Martyr. […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1670, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 29
Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Man’s Reason”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC, page 151
Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.
1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, chapter VIII, section ii
This was done, and in many cases still is done by the main-line railway groups, through the exercise of running powers, which on application to Parliament by the company using them have been granted for the express purpose of affording this access without the necessity for building independent tracks. In other cases, such running powers have been granted without recourse to Parliament, by voluntary agreement between the parties.
1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Running Powers”, in Railway Magazine, page 318

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Origin

noun

From Middle English recours (noun) and recoursen (verb), from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, past participle of recurrō.

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noun

The worker sought blank against the unfair decision by taking legal action.