resort

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1. resort - Noun

2. resort - Verb

Meaning

Active power or movement; spring.

To go; to repair; to betake one's self.

To fall back; to revert.

To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.

The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.

A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.

That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.

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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. Colin Powell

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. H. L. Mencken

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. Joshua Reynolds

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. Chester A. Arthur

Even when fire has done its very worst, one still has to resort to it. Nigerian Proverb

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