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Resort Action Achieve Succeed Carrying Means Order Resorted

query
If you achieve something without r_____ to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have resort to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something.If you achieve something without resort to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have resort to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something.
Congress must ensure that all peaceful options are exhausted before resort to war.
word resort
full-definition
verb
If you resort to a course of action that you do not really approve of, you adopt it because you cannot see any other way of achieving what you want .
When all else failed, he resorted to violence.
Some schools have resorted to recruiting teachers from overseas.
noun
If you achieve something without resort to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have resort to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something.
Congress must ensure that all peaceful options are exhausted before resort to war.
A resort is a place where a lot of people spend their holidays .
...the ski resorts.
inflections resortsresortingresorted
cefr-level B2

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