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Resort Action Resorted Achieve Verb Approve Adopt Achieving

word resort
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

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2

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