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Recourse vs. Resort
Recourse
/rɪˈkɔːs/Examples:
He sought recourse through legal channels to resolve the dispute.Farmers often have recourse to loans during difficult seasons.In emergencies, they had recourse to the stored supplies.
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Resort
/rɪˈzɔːt/Examples:
Venerable parent promptly resorts to anathematization, and turns him out.It permits no headlong resort to the wilderness and sterile virtue.One has sometimes to resort to these little devices..
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This word has no antonymsWays to tell them apart:
- Recourse usually involves turning to someone or something for help or protection, while resort often refers to a place for relaxation and vacation or a last option to solve a problem.
- Remember that recourse has an our in it, indicating turning to our helper or support, while resort has sort as in sorting out a problem by going to a final option.
- You can link resort with a vacation destination by thinking of a resort hotel or beach, whereas recourse is more about legal or formal help you might course to obtain.
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