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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recourse
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
legal
▪ If the borrower should default, the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance.
▪ There was no legal recourse, because none of this discrimination was illegal.
▪ If it is not, however, Hardy has little legal recourse.
only
▪ Recurrences are otherwise quite likely, and, ultimately, surgery may be the only recourse.
▪ Their only recourse was to crowd into the slum areas around.
▪ In the absence of these rare pointers guesswork may be the only recourse.
▪ Because it can not cope with so many messages, its only recourse is to sabotage the airwaves themselves.
▪ Her only recourse was to make a formal appeal through her lawyer.
▪ Protests were made on their behalf but, as Henry Toch discovered, self-help was the only effective recourse.
▪ When her assailant is released and rapes again, her only recourse is yet again violent revenge.
▪ It seems that the only recourse a sufferer now has is to appeal to the landlord.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But government and foundation grants are only a temporary recourse.
▪ If it is not, however, Hardy has little legal recourse.
▪ If the top leaders fail, there's no safety net, no recourse.
▪ She made a complete recovery without recourse to surgery and is reported elsewhere.
▪ That recourse is the U. S. Army.
▪ That need is most frequently satisfied by recourse to a nut or three.
▪ The aim is to use the rubble in as accurate a way as possible, avoiding recourse to modern materials.
▪ We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recourse

Recourse \Re*course"\, v. i.

  1. To return; to recur. [Obs.]

    The flame departing and recoursing.
    --Foxe.

  2. To have recourse; to resort. [Obs.]
    --Bp. Hacket.

Recourse

Recourse \Re*course"\ (r?*k?rs"), n. [F. recours, L. recursus a running back, return, fr. recurrere, recursum, to run back. See Recur.]

  1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] ``Swift recourse of flushing blood.''
    --Spenser.

    Unto my first I will have my recourse.
    --Chaucer.

    Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
    --Sir T. Browne.

  2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.

    Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
    --Sir H. Wotton.

    Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
    --Dryden.

  3. Access; admittance. [Obs.]

    Give me recourse to him.
    --Shak.

    Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recourse

late 14c., from Old French recours (13c.), from Latin recursus "a return, a retreat," literally "a running back, a going back," from stem of past participle of recurrere "run back, return" (see recur).

Wiktionary
recourse

n. 1 The act of seeking assistance or advice. 2 (context obsolete English) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence. 3 (context obsolete English) Access; admittance. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To return; to recur. 2 (context obsolete English) To have recourse; to resort.

WordNet
recourse

  1. n. act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort" [syn: resort, refuge]

  2. something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying" [syn: refuge, resort]

Usage examples of "recourse".

Therefore, before they would have recourse to extremities, they thought it advisable to consult the senate a second time.

On subsequent inquiries, through a circuitous channel, unnecessary to be detailed here at length, on the part of the manufacturer of the cheese, it was found, that as the supplies of anotta had been defective and of inferior quality, recourse had been had to the expedient of colouring the commodity with vermilion.

Miss Margland was preparing him a reproachful reception, but was so much offended by the fishy smell which he brought into the room, that she had immediate recourse to her salts, and besought him to stand out of her way.

Some use a burin to cut straight into the copper, to engrave a line without recourse to acid.

The price of provisions, and bread in particular, being raised to an exorbitant rate in consequence of an absurd exportation of corn, for the sake of the bounty, a formidable body of colliers, and other labouring people, raised an insurrection at Bristol, began to plunder the corn vessels in the harbour, and commit such outrages in the city, that the magistrates were obliged to have recourse to military power.

Having failed by other meansand you have had recourse to manyto extinguish a life that stands between you and your succession to the marquisate of Chavaray, you contrive this comedy of a court martial and employ these poor deluded dupes of yours to do your murder for you.

Conversely, the State may revoke an improvident grant of the public petitionary without recourse to the power of eminent domain, such a grant being inherently beyond the power of the State to make.

Thus Sith appeared to have but one recourse: to repair or reinstruct the synthesizer as quickly as possible, and fleeing Thone and Ggyddn both leave the Earth to its fate.

Sith appeared to have but one recourse: to repair or reinstruct the synthesizer as quickly as possible, and fleeing Thone and Ggyddn both leave the Earth to its fate.

In this perplexity he had recourse to his usual expedient, of submitting to the wisdom of Trajan an impartial, and, in some respects, a favorable account of the new superstition, requesting the emperor, that he would condescend to resolve his doubts, and to instruct his ignorance.

Religion as merely revelation and in its endeavour to find a rational basis for faith set God apart from His world, detached, unheeding and offering no real recourse to a travailing humanity between whom and Himself it built a rigid fabric of impersonal law.

Strode Venturer could not make Aden without recourse to Admiralty bunkering facilities.

Taking into account that Colton Wyndham was no addlebrained nitwit, Adriana had no recourse but to believe he had deliberately dismissed her earlier suggestion.

When experiments on animals seemed to him absolutely indispensable, he had recourse to them, but always with repugnance, and with desire to avoid giving of pain.

He would be stricken from the Cheng records, disowned by his father and relatives, and cast aside without family connections or recourse.