"recourse" meaning in English

See recourse in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɹɪˈkɔːs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɹiːkɔɹs/ [General-American], /ɹɪˈko(ː)ɹs/ (note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger), /ˈɹiːko(ː)ɹs/ (note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger), /ɹɪˈkoəs/ (note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger), /ˈɹiːkoəs/ (note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recourse.wav Forms: recourses [plural]
enPR: rĭkôsʹ [Received-Pronunciation], rēʹkôrs [General-American], rikōrsʹ (note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger), rēʹkōrs (note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s Etymology: From Middle English recours (noun) and recoursen (verb), from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, past participle of recurrō. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱers-}}, {{inh|en|enm|recours|pos=noun}} Middle English recours (noun), {{der|en|fro|recours}} Old French recours, {{der|en|la|recursus}} Latin recursus Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} recourse (countable and uncountable, plural recourses)
  1. The act of seeking assistance or advice. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of seeking assistance or advice): toevlucht [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), turvautuminen (Finnish), обраще́ние (obraščénije) [neuter] (Russian), tillflykt [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-recourse-en-noun-Tskv8Mw7 Disambiguation of 'act of seeking assistance or advice': 92 2 1 6
  2. (uncountable, recourse to) The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-recourse-en-noun-thJXbGqv
  3. (obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-recourse-en-noun-NlkR-TQc
  4. (obsolete) Access; admittance. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-recourse-en-noun-04hVT55q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 7 20 37 8 12 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 8 16 48 8 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 4 14 66 5 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 4 22 55 5 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 11 6 12 51 8 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 14 6 13 53 5 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 10 5 13 57 5 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 14 6 12 54 5 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: legal recourse, nonrecourse, recourseful, recourseless, without recourse Related terms: recur, recursion, recursive

Verb

IPA: /ɹɪˈkɔːs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɹiːkɔɹs/ [General-American], /ɹɪˈko(ː)ɹs/ (note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger), /ˈɹiːko(ː)ɹs/ (note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger), /ɹɪˈkoəs/ (note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger), /ˈɹiːkoəs/ (note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recourse.wav Forms: recourses [present, singular, third-person], recoursing [participle, present], recoursed [participle, past], recoursed [past]
enPR: rĭkôsʹ [Received-Pronunciation], rēʹkôrs [General-American], rikōrsʹ (note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger), rēʹkōrs (note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s Etymology: From Middle English recours (noun) and recoursen (verb), from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, past participle of recurrō. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱers-}}, {{inh|en|enm|recours|pos=noun}} Middle English recours (noun), {{der|en|fro|recours}} Old French recours, {{der|en|la|recursus}} Latin recursus Head templates: {{en-verb}} recourse (third-person singular simple present recourses, present participle recoursing, simple past and past participle recoursed)
  1. (obsolete) To return; to recur. Tags: obsolete Synonyms (to recur): repeat
    Sense id: en-recourse-en-verb-NcKeSESa Disambiguation of 'to recur': 98 2
  2. (obsolete) To have recourse; to resort. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-recourse-en-verb-xipwemgV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: repeat

Inflected forms

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          "text": "All other means have fail'd to move her heart; / Our laſt recourſe is, therefore, to your Art.",
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          "ref": "1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Man’s Reason”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC, page 151:",
          "text": "Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.",
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          "ref": "1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, chapter VIII, section ii:",
          "text": "Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.",
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          "ref": "1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Running Powers”, in Railway Magazine, page 318:",
          "text": "This was done, and in many cases still is done by the main-line railway groups, through the exercise of running powers, which on application to Parliament by the company using them have been granted for the express purpose of affording this access without the necessity for building independent tracks. In other cases, such running powers have been granted without recourse to Parliament, by voluntary agreement between the parties.",
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          "ref": "1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 197:",
          "text": "Careful consideration of every aspect, from car-parking facilities, lay-out of circulating areas, heating and lighting, handling of G.P.O. traffic, signposting, litter facilities, train information, waiting rooms and sanitation, to materials and colour should persuade the most pessimistic individual that, given the will, our most out-dated, inadequate and inconvenient railway stations can be transformed without recourse to complete demolition.",
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          "text": "[B]y the ſwift recourſe of fluſhing blood / Right plaine appeard, though ſhe it would diſſemble, / And fayned ſtill her former angry mood, / Thinking to hide the depth by troubling of the flood.",
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          "text": "For Phyſick is either curative or preventive; Preventive we call that which by purging noxious humors, and the cauſes of diſeases, preventeth ſickneſs in the healthy, or the recourſe thereof in the valetudinary; [...]",
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        "(obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence."
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          "ref": "1678, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World:",
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          "ref": "1669 June (first performance), John Dryden, Tyrannick Love, or, The Royal Martyr. […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1670, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 29:",
          "text": "All other means have fail'd to move her heart; / Our laſt recourſe is, therefore, to your Art.",
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          "ref": "1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Man’s Reason”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC, page 151:",
          "text": "Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.",
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          "ref": "1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, chapter VIII, section ii:",
          "text": "Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Running Powers”, in Railway Magazine, page 318:",
          "text": "This was done, and in many cases still is done by the main-line railway groups, through the exercise of running powers, which on application to Parliament by the company using them have been granted for the express purpose of affording this access without the necessity for building independent tracks. In other cases, such running powers have been granted without recourse to Parliament, by voluntary agreement between the parties.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 197:",
          "text": "Careful consideration of every aspect, from car-parking facilities, lay-out of circulating areas, heating and lighting, handling of G.P.O. traffic, signposting, litter facilities, train information, waiting rooms and sanitation, to materials and colour should persuade the most pessimistic individual that, given the will, our most out-dated, inadequate and inconvenient railway stations can be transformed without recourse to complete demolition.",
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        "The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation."
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        "(uncountable, recourse to) The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation."
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          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29, page 88:",
          "text": "[B]y the ſwift recourſe of fluſhing blood / Right plaine appeard, though ſhe it would diſſemble, / And fayned ſtill her former angry mood, / Thinking to hide the depth by troubling of the flood.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Canicular or Dog-daies”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 4th book, page 195:",
          "text": "For Phyſick is either curative or preventive; Preventive we call that which by purging noxious humors, and the cauſes of diſeases, preventeth ſickneſs in the healthy, or the recourſe thereof in the valetudinary; [...]",
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      "glosses": [
        "A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence."
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        "(obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence."
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          "ref": "c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 45, column 1:",
          "text": "[...] Ile giue you a pottle of burn'd ſacke, to giue me recourſe to him, and tell him my name is Broome: onely for a ieſt.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Access; admittance."
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        "(obsolete) Access; admittance."
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      "enpr": "rĭkôsʹ",
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      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈkɔːs/",
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      "enpr": "rēʹkōrs",
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      "ipa": "/ˈɹiːko(ː)ɹs/",
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      "sense": "act of seeking assistance or advice",
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          "text": "Recoursing deuoutlie to the onlie refuge of humane saluation",
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        "To have recourse; to resort."
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        "(obsolete) To have recourse; to resort."
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      "ipa": "/ˈɹiːko(ː)ɹs/",
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      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈkoəs/",
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      "ipa": "/ˈɹiːkoəs/",
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      "sense": "to recur",
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}

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