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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Something that can be used for support or help: The local library is a valuable resource.
  2. n. An available supply that can be drawn on when needed. Often used in the plural.
  3. n. The ability to deal with a difficult or troublesome situation effectively; initiative: a person of resource.
  4. n. Means that can be used to cope with a difficult situation. Often used in the plural: needed all my intellectual resources for the exam.
  5. n. The total means available for economic and political development, such as mineral wealth, labor force, and armaments.
  6. n. The total means available to a company for increasing production or profit, including plant, labor, and raw material; assets.
  7. n. Such means considered individually.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Any source of aid or support; an expedient to which one may resort; means yet untried; resort.
  2. n. plural Pecuniary means; funds; money or any property that can be converted into supplies; means of raising money or supplies.
  3. n. plural Available means or capabilities of any kind.
  4. n. He always had the full command of all the resources of one of the most fertile minds that ever existed.
  5. n. Synonyms Resort, etc. See expedient.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
  2. n. A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.
  3. v. To supply with resources

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.
  2. n. Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed
  2. n. the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
  3. n. a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed

Etymologies

  1. From Old French resource ("a source, spring"), from Old French resourdre, from Latin resurgere ("to rise again, spring up anew"). See resourd, resurgent, source. (Wiktionary)
  2. Obsolete French, from Old French, from feminine past participle of resourdre, to rise again, from Latin resurgere : re-, re- + surgere, to rise; see surge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. means
  1. expedient
  1. resort
  1. contrivance
  1. funds

same context (8)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. capability
  1. asset
  1. development
  1. facility
  1. management
  1. security
  1. intelligence
  1. capacity

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. renewable resource
  2. help
  3. inner resource
  4. aid
  5. assistance
  6. resort
  7. refuge
  8. depletion
  9. expedient
  10. fallback
  11. long suit
  1. shiftlessness
  2. Hindi
  3. available
  4. dernier
  5. tooth and nail
  6. renewable
  7. nonrenewable
  8. URL
  9. sustained yield
  10. stockpot
  11. back
  1. vertical file
  2. trump card
  3. royalty
  4. set aside
  5. Time
  6. ace
  7. asset
  8. bankrupt
  9. budget
  10. card
  11. field
  1. reserve
  2. poor
  3. fodder
  4. resource
  5. trump
  6. earmark
  7. national technical information service
  8. ntis
  9. unitisation
  10. unitization
  11. allow
  1. appropriate
  2. Caucasia
  3. Caucasus
  4. adroit
  5. bield
  6. boot
  7. mean
  8. omnipotence
  9. shift
  10. shiftless
  11. take

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  • zeke "The key abstraction of information in REST is a resource. Any information that can be named can be a resource: a document or image, a temporal service (e.g. "today's weather in Los Angeles"), a collection of other resources, a non-virtual object (e.g. a person), and so on. In other words, any concept that might be the target of an author's hypertext reference must fit within the definition of a resource. A resource is a conceptual mapping to a set of entities, not the entity that corresponds to the mapping at any particular point in time." - Excerpt from Roy Fielding's dissertation on REST Jul 13, 2011

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