Sekirov Dictionary

resort

UK /ɹɪˈzɔːt/US /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/

noun 5
verb 3
forms 5
phrases 1

noun5

a town or hotel where people go to rest and enjoy themselves
Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
(no longer used) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
•
(no longer used) Active power or movement; spring.
- Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it. — 1625

verb3

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To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
- The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. — 1702
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To make one's way, go (to).
- The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore. — 1526
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To fall back; to revert.
- But the Inheritance of the Son never resorted to the Mother, or to any of her Ancestors, but both she and they were totally excluded from the Succession. — 1713

forms

resorted · resorting · resorteth · resorts · resortest

Phrases with resort

last resort
The only remaining, often least desirable, option when all others have been excluded.

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