resort

[ ri-zawrt ]

verb (used without object)

1. to have recourse for use, help, or accomplishing something, often as a final available option or resource:

   to resort to war.

2. to go, especially frequently or customarily:

   a beach to which many people resort.

noun

1. a place to which people frequently or generally go for relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and recreation facilities for vacationers:

   a popular winter resort.

2. habitual or general going, as to a place or person.
3. use of or appeal to some person or thing for aid, satisfaction, service, etc.; resource:

   to have resort to force;

   a court of last resort.

4. a person or thing resorted to for aid, satisfaction, service, etc.

resort

/ rɪˈzɔːt /

verb

1. usually foll by to to have recourse (to) for help, use, etc

   to resort to violence

2. to go, esp often or habitually; repair

   to resort to the beach

noun

1. a place to which many people go for recreation, rest, etc

   a holiday resort

2. the use of something as a means, help, or recourse
3. the act of going to a place, esp for recreation, rest, etc
4. last resort
   last resort the last possible course of action open to one

Derived Forms

• reˈsorter, noun

Other Words From

• prere·sort verb (used without object)

Word History and Origins

Origin of resort¹

First recorded in 1325–75; (for the verb) Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir, from re- re- + sortir “to go out, leave, escape” (perhaps ultimately from Latin sortīrī “to draw lots”); noun derivative of the verb

Word History and Origins

Origin of resort¹

C14: from Old French resortir to come out again, from re- + sortir to emerge

Idioms and Phrases

see last resort .

Example Sentences

You don’t have a huge demand of people who live in the Bahamas who also want to stay in a resort in the Bahamas.

From Fortune

Bikers flood the area after ski resorts close and before temperatures spike.

From Outside Online

He saw going to court as a final resort for patching up the law’s inadequacies, not a principal tool for establishing it in the first place.

From MIT Technology Review

There were 1,471 votes cast out of 1,731 registered voters in the resort town.

From Washington Blade

One thing I think the government should have done more of is to just become the payer of first resort.

From Freakonomics

So filmmakers usually resort to a plot device to compensate for this absence.

From The Daily Beast

The two scientific stories resort to the equivalent of Mathematics for Dummies andPhysics for Dummies.

From The Daily Beast

Winter Resort operators are harnessing an unlikely source to power their operations: the sun.

From The Daily Beast

Berkshire East ski resort near the Vermont border, which has 44 trails, has taken this power-production drive a step further.

From The Daily Beast

For aesthetic reasons, ski resort operators try to limit the noise and infrastructure associated with producing power.

From The Daily Beast

Nevertheless, when once issued, they made unnecessary any resort to additional Bank of England notes.

From Project Gutenberg

We must keep to the text and not resort to any foreign matter to help the feeble memory.

From Project Gutenberg

This method, too, once used in addition to what has been done by the pupil, will make a further resort to it unnecessary.

From Project Gutenberg

Then again amateurs may resort to the old French makers, some old English and the Tyrolean, which may be had cheaper still.

From Project Gutenberg

It is especially a winter resort, although the hotels keep open during the year.

From Project Gutenberg