[U] (formal) the fact of having to, or being able to, use sth that can provide help in a difficult situation:
Your only recourse is legal action. * She made a complete recovery without recourse to surgery. * The government, when necessary has recourse to the armed forces.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for recourse is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is recourse a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, recourse is tagged as noun.
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