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resort

/ri-zawrt/US // rɪˈzɔrt //UK // (rɪˈzɔːt) //

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to have recourse for use, help, or accomplishing something, often as a final available option or resource: to resort to war.
    • : to go, especially frequently or customarily: a beach to which many people resort.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a place to which people frequently or generally go for relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and recreation facilities for vacationers: a popular winter resort.
    • : habitual or general going, as to a place or person.
    • : use of or appeal to some person or thing for aid, satisfaction, service, etc.; resource: to have resort to force; a court of last resort.
    • : a person or thing resorted to for aid, satisfaction, service, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbhave recourse to; make use of
Forms: resorted, resorting

Examples

  • You don’t have a huge demand of people who live in the Bahamas who also want to stay in a resort in the Bahamas.

  • Bikers flood the area after ski resorts close and before temperatures spike.

  • He saw going to court as a final resort for patching up the law’s inadequacies, not a principal tool for establishing it in the first place.

  • There were 1,471 votes cast out of 1,731 registered voters in the resort town.

  • One thing I think the government should have done more of is to just become the payer of first resort.

  • So filmmakers usually resort to a plot device to compensate for this absence.

  • The two scientific stories resort to the equivalent of Mathematics for Dummies andPhysics for Dummies.

  • Winter Resort operators are harnessing an unlikely source to power their operations: the sun.

  • Berkshire East ski resort near the Vermont border, which has 44 trails, has taken this power-production drive a step further.

  • For aesthetic reasons, ski resort operators try to limit the noise and infrastructure associated with producing power.

  • Nevertheless, when once issued, they made unnecessary any resort to additional Bank of England notes.

  • We must keep to the text and not resort to any foreign matter to help the feeble memory.

  • This method, too, once used in addition to what has been done by the pupil, will make a further resort to it unnecessary.

  • Then again amateurs may resort to the old French makers, some old English and the Tyrolean, which may be had cheaper still.

  • It is especially a winter resort, although the hotels keep open during the year.