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recourse
[ ree-kawrs, -kohrs, ri-kawrs, -kohrs ]
noun
- access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection:
to have recourse to the courts for justice.
- a person or thing resorted to for help or protection.
- the right to collect from a maker or endorser of a negotiable instrument. The endorser may add the words “without recourse” on the instrument, thereby transferring the instrument without assuming any liability.
recourse
/ rɪˈkɔːs /
noun
- the act of resorting to a person, course of action, etc, in difficulty or danger (esp in the phrase have recourse to )
- a person, organization, or course of action that is turned to for help, protection, etc
- the right to demand payment, esp from the drawer or endorser of a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument when the person accepting it fails to pay
- without recoursewithout recourse a qualified endorsement on such a negotiable instrument, by which the endorser protects himself or herself from liability to subsequent holders
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Origin of recourse1
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Example Sentences
What recourse would they have to prove that they should be eligible for release?
I know that it might get nowhere, but this is my only recourse.
Had the board decided to give Eich a few weeks to prove himself, those who disagreed would have had no recourse.
They, according to one juror, who spoke to Nightline, believed Dunn had no recourse but to shoot.
However well-intentioned, we are not sure that this bill would be the most effective means of recourse.
The men, whose poniards his sword parried, had recourse to fire-arms, and two pistols were fired at him.
To such persons does he open the doors to pay them, while they are shut on the wretched owners without recourse.
Then we blotted out the fire, and, stretching ourselves on the ground, had recourse to the solace of tobacco.
No other remedy remained but the application of force, and convinced of this, it had recourse to revolution.
When we wish to regulate the admission of light to our rooms we have recourse to very clumsy contrivances.
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