Recourse

Definitions: Recourse

Recourse

Noun

1. Act of turning to for assistance: "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort".

2. Something or someone turned to for assistance or security: "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "recourse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Finance

Shipping

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Synonyms: Recourse

Use

Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.

Exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency; (physical); usufruct; usefulness; benefit; recourse, resort, avail.

Crosswords: Recourse

Books

• Consumer sourcebook; a directory and guide to government organizations; associations, centers and institutes; media services; company and trademark information; and bibliographic material relating to consumer topics, sources of recourse, and advisory ... (reference)

• Dissertation on the Subject of a Congress of Nations, for the Adjustment of International Disputes Without Recourse to Arms (reference)

• No Other Recourse (reference)

• Recourse Against Judgements in the European Union/Voies De Recours Dans L'Union Europeenne/Rechtsmittel in Der Europaischen Union (Civil Procedure In) (reference)

• Recourse to Force : State Action against Threats and Armed Attacks (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Without recourse.Credit: Library of Congress.

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She had recourse to the expedient of children who are always terrified.

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Health

Special attention is paid to the role of drugs in relation to problem feelings and behaviors, and how problems may be solved without recourse to drugs. (references)

Recourse for patient grievance and professional censure are provided through credentialing and licensing procedures and are available through appropriate State jurisdictions. (references)

Business

Management is legally limited in its recourse to lockouts. (references)

It is condemned in society, and legal and medical recourse is available. (references)

The legislated changes also limited legal recourse against denials of asylum applications. (references)

Children

Russia

The welfare of the children has been lost within the bureaucracy, and little clear recourse exists in instances of abuse by the system. (references)

Russia

The existing system provides little oversight and no formal recourse for orphans who have been misdiagnosed as mentally ill or retarded or who are abused or neglected while in state institutions. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

Muslims have no recourse to civil courts in family-status matters. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Recourse through the courts is lengthy, costly, and uncertain. (references)

Indonesia

The court system does not provide effective recourse for settling property disputes. (references)

Croatia

If the high court reaffirms a lower court's ruling, there is no recourse for appeal. (references)

Human Rights

China

A growing number of persons are using legal recourse against government malfeasance. (references)

Namibia

Citizens who are arrested arbitrarily used civil suits as legal recourse in many cases. (references)

Oman

If a settlement cannot be reached, the parties may seek recourse in the appropriate courts. (references)

Indigenous People

Honduras

The courts commonly deny legal recourse to indigenous groups and often show bias in favor of nonindigenous parties of means and influence. (references)

Honduras

In the absence of clear land titles and unequal access to legal recourse, indigenous groups also are vulnerable to frequent usurpation of their property rights by nonindigenous farmers and cattle ranchers. (references)

Political Economy

CZECH REPUBLIC

In particular, investors have been frustrated by the lack of effective recourse to the court system. (references)

Trade

China

Chinese officials have for years experimented with limited- recourse project financing schemes. (references)

Bahrain

If a company insists, the government may consider recourse to the International Chamber of Commerce or to the GCC Arbitration Center. (references)

India

The Limited Recourse Finance Program provides financing for projects that are dependent on the cash flows of the project for repayment rather than on the credit strength of a purchaser. (references)

Women

Macedonia

Legal recourse is available to rape victims, including victims of marital rape. (references)

Russia

Domestic violence remained a major problem, and victims rarely have recourse to protection from the authorities. (references)

Chad

By tradition wives are subject to the authority of their husbands, and they only had limited legal recourse against abuse. (references)

Worker Rights

Laos

The victims have no recourse to relief. (references)

Pakistan

Dismissed workers have no recourse to the labor courts. (references)

Indonesia

If such marriages fail, the women have no legal recourse. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "recourse": have recourse to ♦ indorsement without recourse ♦ right of recourse ♦ without recourse. Additional references.

Ending with "recourse": non-recourse.

Albanian

strehë (asylum, awning, cover, dwelling, hangout, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, hostel, house, housing, hovel, Lee, lodgement, lodgment, lurking place, mew, pad, peak, port, refuge, retreat, roof, sanctuary, sanctum, sconce, shade, shed, shelter), mbështetje (adhesion, aegis, aliment, alimentation, alimony, backup, foundation, furtherance, pillar, promotion, purchase, stock, support, sustenance, sustention, tower), kërkim ndihme, e drejtë tërheqjeje, dalje (egress, egression, emergence, emersion, eruption, escape, exit, leakage, orifice, out, outcome, outcrop, outgo, outlet, recovery, rise, safety valve, salience, salient, shoot, vent), adresim (addressing, reference). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملجأ (asylum, burrow, cover, harbor, harbour, haven, hideaway, hideout, home, lair, poorhouse, refuge, resort, resource, retreat, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter), ‏ملاذ (anchor, anchorage, asylum, harbor, harbour, haven, hermitage, hideaway, refuge, resort, retreat, sanctuary, shelter), ‏نقد (cash, commentary, criticism, criticize, critique, money, paper, rave, review), ‏حق حامل الكمبيالة في الرجوع على الصاحب, ‏طعن (aspersion, impale, jab, jag, knife, libel, pike, put a knife into smb., put off, remedy, slander, stab, strike, thrust, thrusting, transfix), ‏إلتجاء, ‏إستعانة, ‏إستجارة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

средство (agency, contrivance, device, help, instrumentality, instrumentation, means, medium, pry, remedy, resort, resource, shift, tool, weapon), прибягване (recurrence, repair, resort), прибежище (refuge). (various references)

Chinese 

依赖 (Dependant, Dependent). (various references)

Czech

zdroj pomoci, útoèištì (harbour, haven, refuge, resort, resource, sanctuary). (various references)

Danish

regres (regress, right of recourse), saafremt trykket i olien fortsat falder trods tilbageledning af udstroemmet gas,benyttes den saakaldte gas lift-metode ved under tryk af lede en gasart ned i produktionsforingsroeret,saa denne faar olien til at emulgere og stige op (if the pressure of the oil continues to fall, in spite of gas re-injection, in which gas is pumped into the tubing under high pressure, recourse is had to the gas lift method, thus emulsifying the oil and causing it to rise), endossement sine obligo (indorsement sans recours, indorsement without recourse, qualified indorsement), artikel 28,stykke 2,i konventionen af 27.9.1968 skal hindre,en sag forhales (recourse to time-wasting duplication). (various references)

Dutch

regres (appeal, regress, right of recourse), verhaal (account, history, narrative, regress, right of recourse, story, tale), indien de druk van de olie blijft dalen ondanks het weer injecteren van spontaan vrijgekomen gassen,dan wordt overgegaan tot het toepassen van het gas lift-procédé waarbij in de stijgbuis een onder druk staand gas wordt geïnjecteerd de olie emulgeert (if the pressure of the oil continues to fall, in spite of gas re-injection, in which gas is pumped into the tubing under high pressure, recourse is had to the gas lift method, thus emulsifying the oil and causing it to rise), gebruik van rechtsmiddelen die het proces vertragen (recourse to time-wasting duplication). (various references)

Farsi 

پاتوق (Haunt, Nest, Rendezvous, Resort, Station), میعادگاه (Hangout, Tryst), متوسل شدن به , مراجعه کردن به , مراجعه (Reference, Referral, Respect), چاره (Makeshift, Remedy), وسیله (Appliance, Handle, Inducement, Instrument, Instrumental, Makeshift, Medium, Organ, Resource), توسل , اعاده (Rebound, Recession, Repetition, Restitution, Return). (various references)

Finnish

regressivaade (regress, right of recourse), regressioikeus (regress, right of recourse), turvautua (fall back upon, have recourse to, resort to, turn to). (various references)

French

recours (regress, remedy, remonstrance, resort, review, right of recourse). (various references)

German

regress (redress, regress, right of recourse), zuflucht (place of refuge, refuge, sanctuary, shelter). (various references)

Greek 

προσφυγή (grievance, protest, remonstrance, resort). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ז�"קק ל- (be in need, have recourse to, resort). (various references)

Hungarian

vmihez fordulás, vmihez folyamodás, vkihez fordulás, vkihez folyamodás, visszkereseti jog, segítőeszköz, menedék (concealment, covert, coverture, harbor, harborage, harbourage, haven, home, housing, mew, place of concealment, refuge, resort, resource, shelter), kisegítő megoldás (makeshift), kibúvó (evasion, loophole, mask, quibble, quip, resource, shuffle, subterfuge), fordulás vkihez, folyamodás vkihez. (various references)

Italian

ricorso (appeal, application, petition, recurrence, resort). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �る (to depend on, to have recourse to, to rely on), 便る (to depend on, to have recourse to, to rely on). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たよる (to depend on, to have recourse to, to rely on). (various references)

Korean 

의지 (Relying, Resorting, Volition, Will). (various references)

Pig Latin

ecourseray

Portuguese

recurso (appeal, asset, expedient, healthy, means, obsecration, refuge, remedy, resort, resource, resources, shift, wherewith), ato de recorrer a. (various references)

Romanian

refugiu (asylum, covert, flight, Harbor, harbour, haven, hiding, home, kennel, niche, pied a terre, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, shelter), recurs (appeal, remedy), scãpare (deliverance, escape, escapement, getaway, leakage, liberation, muff, negligence, omission, rescue, riddance, salvation, slip), adãpost (bunker, burrow, cot, cover, covert, coverture, flight, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, house, housing, kennel, lair, lodgment, nest, niche, penthouse, port, refuge, retreat, roofing, safeguard, sanctuary, sconce, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, stall, support). (various references)

Russian 

обращение за помощью. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

regres (regress), pribegavanje, pravo na regres. (various references)

Spanish

recurso (appeal, asset, device, expedient, grievance, protest, refuge, remedy, remonstrance, resort, resource). (various references)

Swedish

tillflykt (refuge, resort, sanctuary, shelter). (various references)

Turkish

rücu hakkı, yardım kaynağı, başvuru (appeal, application, letter of application), başvurma (application, consult, enrollment, enrolment, reference, resort). (various references)

Ukranian 

рятівний засіб, звернення по допомогу, допуск (allowance). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nhờ đến, sự cầu đến. (various references)

recursus, respectus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "recourse": recourses. (additional references)

Words ending with "recourse": nonrecourse. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Recourse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bricourt, Lecours, recause, recore, recorse, recource, recours, recourt, recouse, recurse, recurve, resourse, ricorsi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: resource.

-1 letter: courser, rescore, rescuer, scourer, securer.

-2 letters: cereus, cerous, ceruse, corers, course, crores, crouse, cruors, curers, curser, cursor, recurs, recuse, rerose, rescue, rouser, scorer, secure, source, sourer.

-3 letters: ceres, ceros, corer, cores, corse, crore, cruor, cruse, curer, cures, currs, curse, ecrus, erose, euros, recur, reuse, roues, rouse, ruers, score, scour, scree, serer, sorer, sucre, surer.

-4 letters: cees, cere, cero, core, cors, crus, cues, cure, curr, curs, ecru, ecus, eros, errs, euro, orcs, ores, ours, recs, rees, rocs, roes, rose, roue, ruer, rues, ruse, seer, sere, sore, sour, suer, sure, user.

-5 letters: cee, cor, cos, cue, cur, ecu, ere, err, ers, oes, orc, ore, ors, ose, our, rec, ree, res, roc, roe, rue, sec, see, ser, sou, sue, use.

+1 letter: overcures, recourses, resources, verrucose.

+2 letters: courseware, covertures, fluorescer, persecutor, procedures, racecourse, reconquers, recounters, renouncers, reproduces, retouchers, underscore.

+3 letters: coursewares, couturieres, encouragers, fluorescers, foreclosure, intercourse, nonrecourse, occurrences, persecutors, persecutory, racecourses, rencounters, reproducers, resourceful, treacherous, underscored, underscores, watercourse.

+4 letters: chemosurgery, cloudberries, concurrences, conjecturers, countercries, counterfires, foreclosures, intercourses, meretricious, overproduces, precancerous, precomputers, procurements, reconfigures, reencounters, reintroduces, repercussion, resurrection, supercargoes, urethroscope, watercourses.

+5 letters: concurrencies, correctitudes, corruptnesses, counterargues, counterforces, counteroffers, counterorders, counterpowers, countersniper, counterstream, counterstrike, counterstroke, countertenors, countertrades, countertrends, creaturehoods, cryosurgeries, cursorinesses, electrophorus, motherfuckers, outreproduces, overcredulous, oversubscribe, protuberances, reconstructed, recuperations, reoccurrences, repercussions, reproducibles, reproductives, resourcefully, resurrections, stercoraceous, supercollider, supercomputer, treacherously, urethroscopes.

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