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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or an instance of turning or applying to a person or thing for aid or security: have recourse to the courts.
  2. n. One that is turned or applied to for aid or security: His only recourse was the police.
  3. n. Law The right to demand payment from the endorser of a commercial paper when the first party liable fails to pay.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Resort for help or protection, as when in difficulty or perplexity.
  2. n. Resort; customary visitation or communication.
  3. n. Access; admittance.
  4. n. Return; new attack; recurrence.
  5. n. Repeated course; frequent flowing.
  6. n. In Scots law, the right of an assignee or disponee under the warrandice of the transaction to recur on the vendor or cedent for relief in case of eviction or of defects inferring warrandice.
  7. To return; recur.
  8. To have recourse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of seeking assistance or advice.
  2. v. obsolete To return; to recur.
  3. v. obsolete To have recourse; to resort.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.
  2. n. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.
  3. n. obsolete Access; admittance.
  4. v. obsolete To return; to recur.
  5. v. obsolete To have recourse; to resort.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. something or someone turned to for assistance or security
  2. n. act of turning to for assistance

Etymologies

  1. From Old French recours < Latin recursus, past participle of recurrō. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English recours, from Old French, from Latin recursus, a running back, from past participle of recurrere, to run back : re-, re- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. return
  1. retreat
  1. recurence
  1. resort
  1. access
  1. admittance
  1. recur
  1. application

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. help
  1. assistance
  1. assist
  1. aid

same context (2)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. redress
  1. vomit

reverse dictionary (44)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. inquire
  2. turn
  3. to fall back upon
  4. go
  5. retrocognition
  6. betake
  7. recourse
  8. recurrence
  1. swindle
  2. pis aller
  3. apply
  4. extrajudicially
  5. inflowering
  6. last-gasp
  7. recur
  8. appeal
  1. last-ditch
  2. touchy-feely
  3. law
  4. refer
  5. resort
  6. naturalism
  7. call on
  8. evict
  1. fallback
  2. take
  3. to refer one's self
  4. self-help
  5. to turn to
  6. without recourse
  7. consult
  8. custom
  1. diseaseful
  2. expedient
  3. fall
  4. heroic
  5. insult
  6. restaur
  7. seek
  8. sentisection
  1. shifting
  2. sneak
  3. stand
  4. color-blindness

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