1 [C] a place where a lot of people go on holiday/vacation:
seaside / ski / mountain resorts * (BrE) a popular holiday resort * the resort town of Byron Bay
2 [U] ~ to sth the act of using sth, especially sth bad or unpleasant, because nothing else is possible:
There are hopes that the conflict can be resolved without resort to violence.
3 the first / last / final ~ the first or last course of action that you should or can take in a particular situation:
Strike action should be regarded as a last resort, when all attempts to negotiate have failed. * In the last resort (= at the most basic level) what really moves us is our personal convictions.
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
resort to sth to make use of sth, especially sth bad, as a means of achieving sth, often because there is no other possible solution:
They felt obliged to resort to violence. * [+-ing] We may have to resort to using untrained staff.
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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 resort is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is resort a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, resort is tagged as noun.
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