Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something that is available for use or that can be used for support or help.
- noun An available supply, especially of money, that can be drawn on when needed.
- noun The ability to deal with a difficult or troublesome situation effectively; resourcefulness.
- noun A means that can be used to cope with a difficult situation; an expedient.
- noun The total means available for economic and political development, such as mineral wealth, labor force, and armaments.
- noun The total means available to a company for increasing production or profit, including plant, labor, and raw material; assets.
- noun Such means considered individually.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any source of aid or support; an expedient to which one may resort; means yet untried; resort.
- noun plural Pecuniary means; funds; money or any property that can be converted into supplies; means of raising money or supplies.
- noun plural Available means or capabilities of any kind.
- noun He always had the full command of all the resources of one of the most fertile minds that ever existed.
- noun Synonyms Resort, etc. See
expedient .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.
- noun Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that one
uses to achieve an objective, e.g.raw materials orpersonnel . - noun A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.
- verb To supply with resources
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed
- noun the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
- noun a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Although the Company's use in the July 14, 2011 press release of the term "resource potential" is permitted under United States securities laws, such disclosure differs from the disclosure permitted under Canadian law.
unknown title 2011
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In this press release, we use the term "resource potential" to describe the Company's internal estimates of volumes of oil and natural gas that are not classified as proved reserves but are potentially recoverable through exploratory drilling or additional drilling or recovery techniques.
unknown title 2012
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It appears that the main resource from the moon would be rocket fuel and scientific research of unknown value.
"Moon = Stupid": Its The Same Tired Rhetoric From Bob Zubrin - NASA Watch 2009
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In particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term "resource" does not equate to the term "reserves".
unknown title 2011
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Some prefer the term resource-based learning (Nichols 2001; Ryan et al 2001).
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The term resource as well as references to the resource base and recoverable resources (other than historical production) in this report include discovered quantities of oil and gas that are not yet classified as proved reserves but that we believe will likely be developed in the future.
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How much of the resource is available is continuoulsy decreasing due to the daily production.
The Future of Oil, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As someone who has performed historical research, this resource is a goldmine. at
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Found in the left hand margin this resource is another wonderful feature of the website and project.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Found in the left hand margin this resource is another wonderful feature of the website and project.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Women Working, 1800-1930 2007
zeke commented on the word resource
"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
July 13, 2011