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Word:
resort
IPA transcription: [ɹis'ɔɹt]
Pronunciations of resort
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noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
resort, resort_hotel, holiday_resort
Meaning:
a hotel located in a resort area
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
fall_back, resort, recur
Meaning:
have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"
Usage examples
What is a summer resort?
This will be done only as a last resort."
"That is a violent measure to resort to."
"None of our people would resort to a dirty trick like that."
It is these, too, who are most often forced to resort to such operations.
In such a case we have at once to resort to a very high potency of Sulphur.
Let us eschew violence, which is but seldom successful, and resort to craft.
But the caretaker over at the summer resort has even a lonelier time, I suppose.
He now had the Senate, the Executive and a majority of the Court of last resort.
The Palazzo della Torre was for a fortnight the resort of the curious and the idle.
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Lorne Park
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Weymouth, Dorset
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Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916
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Lithia Park
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