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[ree-sawrs, -sohrs, -zawrs, -zohrs, ri-sawrs, -sohrs, -zawrs, -zohrs] Pronunciation Key
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[ree-sawrs, -sohrs, -zawrs, -zohrs, ri-sawrs, -sohrs, -zawrs, -zohrs] Pronunciation Key –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. |
[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
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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') Pronunciation Key
n.
[Obsolete French, from Old French, from feminine past participle of resourdre, to rise again, from Latin resurgere : re-, re- + surgere, to rise; see surge.] |
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