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resort English

Meaning resort meaning

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Definitions in simple English

resort

Buildings in a scenic area where people can go on vacation or to relax; resorts are like hotels that provide extra entertainment to their guests. Dan and Sarah went to an expensive resort in Jamaica for their honeymoon.

resort

To choose to do something you don't want to do because you have no other choice. All my friends were too busy to help me move so I had to resort to calling a moving company and it cost me $100 dollars an hour! To sort something again. I just sorted these files last week and didn't think I'd have to do it again for awhile, but I had to resort them this morning.

resort

have recourse to The government resorted to rationing meat a hotel located in a resort area (= recourse) act of turning to for assistance have recourse to the courts an appeal to his uncle was his last resort (= repair) move, travel, or proceed toward some place He repaired to his cabin in the woods (= recourse, refuge) something or someone turned to for assistance or security his only recourse was the police took refuge in lying (= haunt) a frequently visited place

Synonyms resort synonyms

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Conjugation resort conjugation

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resort · verb

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Simple sentences

If you don't listen to us, we will have to resort to coercion.
I had to resort to threats to get my money back.
Hawaii is a popular tourist resort.
They went to a resort in the mountains last summer.
She relied on the medicine as a last resort.
Do not resort to the sword but appeal to reason.
Don't resort to violence.
When only death remains, the last resort is to beg for food.
Tom is ready to resort to violence in order to get what he wants.
I must assume that people who resort to weapons other than the intellect to defend themselves cannot possess a very sharp intellect.
As a last resort, read the instructions.
We should not resort to violence.
You must never resort to violence.
You are my only resort.
You must never resort to force.
I hope they don't resort to violence to accomplish their goals.
It is sometimes acceptable to resort to violence.
Klava went to a resort.
The seaside resort was so touristy that it actually stood up and walked to Vegas.
People who resort to ad hominem arguments are all a bunch of backwoods jackasses.
Non sequitur is the last resort of the inane.
The resort has large swimming pools.

Movie subtitles

Don't resort to violence!
That individual must be getting desperate to resort to these kind of deeds.
I'd feel better if they didn't resort to murder.
Ladies, as your legal adviser, I would suggest that we resort to a.
That's my court of last resort, Sir Guy.
Health resort.
In the last resort, I am willing to a financial sacrifice.
You'll have to develop more courtesy and respect for your future husband or I'll actually have to resort to strong measures.
So, in desperation, and only as a last resort, did Frank turn to robbery.
It's a resort town.
We've never had to resort to anything like murder.
It doesn't look like a high-class resort.
The dream's trying to tell him the name of the resort.
No. We can call a travel agency and check all the resort names.
I've planned a vacation for you in the mountains, at a nice resort where they play bridge and have lectures on art.
For a seaside resort, it's the best you can find.
Only I thought, as he's proud and pretentious, he'd only return as a last resort.
As last resort we could abandon the code and take Tobel to Germany.
We've never had to resort to anything like. like murder.
You think I can be put away in lavender And then be taken out as a last resort.
We can call a travel agency and check all the resort names.
And then I prescripts gave her that she should lock herself from his resort, admit no messengers, receive no tokens.
I agree with you. They should be kept as an asset of the last resort.
The disgrace is we have to resort to such roundabout methods to get him.
At a summer resort.
You could open a health resort.
Don't give him the check except as a last resort.
Do your sheep normally resort to cosmetics? - Hm?
Only as a last resort.
What do you want, that we resort to theft?
I can't send you to a hospital or resort.
The Berkshires, that resort.
It's self-defence when I have to resort to the law.
It's just like being in a hot spring resort.

News and current affairs

Later, Maurice Obstfeld pointed out that, in addition to fiscal transfers, a currency union needs clearly defined rules for the lender of last resort.
Obstfeld had in mind a bailout mechanism for banks, but it is now abundantly clear that one also needs a lender of last resort and a bankruptcy mechanism for states and municipalities.
This would not be achieved, however, through an inevitably imperfect sanctions regime, or by America's resort to Cold War logic aimed at breaking Iran's backbone by drawing it into a ruinous arms race.
So the question arises: how are private bondholders to be convinced to get rid of their Greek bonds at a loss if there is a credible buyer of last resort?
But, unlike banks, they do not have the safety net implied by central banks' role as lender of last resort.
In conformity with Germany's demand, the additional capital would come first from the market and then from individual governments - and from the European Financial Stability Facility only as a last resort, thereby preserving the EFSF's firepower.
If the world is to have a decent economic recovery, an upturn will depend on America getting off its back and continuing to fulfill its role as global importer of last resort.
But this argument is undermined by the fact that the state can resort to lethal force to prevent serious crimes, or to fight a war or rebellion.
There is something unsettling about the global power elite jetting into an exclusive Swiss ski resort and telling the rest of the world to stop using fossil fuels.
If stability is to be preserved, financial markets need regulators and a lender of last resort.
But there can be no lender of last resort without a modicum of moral hazard.
Brazilian bonds would rally and confidence would return at the sight of a lender of last resort.
Perhaps more important, it would have no lender of last resort capable of stabilizing the banking and financial system in a crisis.
To make the European Central Bank a lender of last resort for all of the euro-zone countries, for example, would give distressed European governments some added breathing space.
In these desperate circumstances, North Korea's leaders clung to their strategy of developing nuclear weapons as a last resort to defend the security of their regime.
Moreover, with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad remaining as Iran's president, the West will once again resort to its usual method of dealing with unfriendly regimes: impose more sanctions.
One troubling aspect of this change is that the new leader may feel the need to resort to brute force more frequently in order to suppress popular resistance.
My proposal is to create a physical stockpile of LEU at the disposal of the IAEA as a last-resort reserve for countries with nuclear power programs that face a supply disruption for non-commercial reasons.
And Putin has to resort to ever more belligerent nationalism to cover up the social and economic deficiencies of his rule.
It was the latest resort to terrible violence in order to resolve how to share in peace what Christians still like to call the Holy Land.
There will always be those who will resort to force against innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of political goals.

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