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re⋅source

  [ree-sawrs, -sohrs, -zawrs, -zohrs, ri-sawrs, -sohrs, -zawrs, -zohrs]
–noun
1. a source of supply, support, or aid, esp. one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
2. resources, the collective wealth of a country or its means of producing wealth.
3. Usually, resources. money, or any property that can be converted into money; assets.
4. Often, resources. an available means afforded by the mind or one's personal capabilities: to have resource against loneliness.
5. an action or measure to which one may have recourse in an emergency; expedient.
6. capability in dealing with a situation or in meeting difficulties: a woman of resource.
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Origin:
1640–50; < F ressource, OF ressourse, n. deriv. of resourdre to rise up < L resurgere, equiv. to re- re- + surgere to rise up, lift; see resurge, source

Related forms:
re⋅source⋅less, adjective
re⋅source⋅less⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1, 5. resort. 5. means, contrivance, shift. 6. inventiveness, adapability, ingenuity, cleverness.
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re·source   (rē'sôrs', -sōrs', -zôrs', -zōrs', rĭ-sôrs', -sōrs', -zôrs', -zōrs')   
n.  

  1. Something that can be used for support or help: The local library is a valuable resource.

  2. An available supply that can be drawn on when needed. Often used in the plural.

  3. The ability to deal with a difficult or troublesome situation effectively; initiative: a person of resource.

  4. Means that can be used to cope with a difficult situation. Often used in the plural: needed all my intellectual resources for the exam.

    1. resources The total means available for economic and political development, such as mineral wealth, labor force, and armaments.

    2. resources The total means available to a company for increasing production or profit, including plant, labor, and raw material; assets.

    3. Such means considered individually.


[Obsolete French, from Old French, from feminine past participle of resourdre, to rise again, from Latin resurgere : re-, re- + surgere, to rise; see surge.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

resource 
1611, "means of supplying a want or deficiency," from Fr. resourse, from fem. pp. of O.Fr. resourdre "to rally, raise again," from L. resurgere "rise again" (see resurgent). Resources "a country's wealth" first recorded 1779.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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