Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - resort
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Resort
resort
~1 n 1 a place where people often go for holidays (seaside/beach/mountain etc resort) (a seaside resort south of Tokyo | resort hotel/beach/town) (Jan and Matt run a small resort hotel in Vermont.) 2 as a last resort/in the last resort used to say what you will do if everything else fails (As a last resort we could borrow more money on the house. | of last resort (=used when everything else has failed)) (a weapon of last resort) 3 have resort to formal to do something bad or extreme because you cannot think of any other solution (It may be necessary to have resort to force.) 4 AmE a hotel for people on holiday ~2 v resort to sth phr v to use something or do something that is bad, in order to succeed or deal with a problem (When polite requests failed Paul resorted to threats. | resort to doing sth) (Sally resorted to stealing when her money ran out.)
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(resorts, resorting, resorted) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you resort to a course of action that you do not really approve of, you adopt it because you cannot see any other way of achieving what you want. His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs... VERB: V to n/-ing 2. If you achieve something without resort to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have resort to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something. Congress has a responsibility to ensure that all peaceful options are exhausted before resort to war. = recourse N-UNCOUNT: N to n 3. If you do something as a last resort, you do it because you can find no other way of getting out of a difficult situation or of solving a problem. Nuclear weapons should be used only as a last resort... PHRASE: PHR with cl 4. You use in the last resort when stating the most basic or important fact that will still be true in a situation whatever else happens. They would in the last resort support their friends whatever they did. = ultimately PHRASE: PHR with cl 5. A resort is a place where a lot of people spend their holidays. ...the ski resorts. N-COUNT: usu supp N ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, return, source of aid, from Anglo-French, from ~ir to rebound, ~, from re- + Old French sortir to go out, leave Date: 14th century 1. a. one that affords aid or refuge ; resource went to them as a last ~ b. recourse 1a have ~ to outside help 2. a. frequent, habitual, or general visiting a place of popular ~ b. persons who frequent a place ; throng c. (1) a frequently visited place ; haunt (2) a place providing recreation and entertainment especially to vacationers Synonyms: see resource II. intransitive verb Date: 15th century 1. to go especially frequently or habitually ; repair 2. to have recourse ~ to force ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a place frequented esp. for holidays or for a specified purpose or quality (seaside resort; health resort). 2 a a thing to which one has recourse; an expedient or measure (a taxi was our best resort). b (foll. by to) recourse to; use of (without resort to violence). 3 a tendency to frequent or be frequented (places of great resort). --v.intr. 1 (foll. by to) turn to as an expedient (resorted to threats). 2 (foll. by to) go often or in large numbers to. Phrases and idioms in the (or as a) last resort when all else has failed. Derivatives resorter n. Etymology: ME f. OF resortir (as RE-, sortir come or go out) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. сущ. 1) обращение за помощью 2) прибежище 3) утешение 4) надежда • - court of last resort 2. гл. 1) прибегать к (to) 2) обращаться за помощью 3) отправляться куда-л. ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. обращение (за помощью и т. п.) to make (to have) resort to smb. —- обращаться к кому-л. to make resort to smth. —- прибегать к чему-л. to have resort to force (to violence) —- прибегать к насилию without resort to force (to violence) —- не прибегая к насилию 2. прибежище, утешение; надежда; спасительное средство that is my only resort —- это моя единственная надежда 3. посещаемое место, излюбленное место (отдыха, прогулок и т. п.) popular resort —- любимое публикой место 4. пристанище all-night resort —- ночной клуб resort of thieves —- воровской притон 5. курорт (также health или holiday resort) seaside resort —- морской курорт summer resort —- летний курорт resort hotel —- курортная гостиница, курортный отель 6. уст. сборище he encouraged the resort of artists —- он любил, чтобы у него собирались художники Id: in the (as a) last resort —- в крайнем случае; как последнее средство 7. прибегать, обращаться (к чему-л.) to resort to all sorts of precautions —- прибегать ко всяким мерам предосторожности to resort to force —- прибегнуть к насилию to resort to blows —- пустить в ход кулаки, затеять драку 8. редк. обращаться за помощью (к кому-л.) 9. уст. (часто) посещать; бывать (где-л.) a place which he was known to resort —- место, где он, как известно, бывал 10. отправляться куда-л. at the age of twenty-five he resorted to Italy —- в возрасте двадцати пяти лет он...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) прибежище; утешение; надежда; as a last resort, in the last resort - в крайнем случае; как последнее средство; without resort to force - не прибегая к насилию 2) обращение (за помощью) 3) посещаемое место; курорт (тж. health resort); - summer resort 2. v. 1) прибегать (к чему-л.), обращаться за помощью (to); to resort to force/compulsion - прибегнуть к насилию, принуждению; Poets sometimes resort to strange uses of the language. 2) obs. (часто) посещать; We resorted to the hotel for some coffee. ...Англо-русский словарь
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