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Someone or something to turn to for help. Also: A location for recreation and relaxation. Also: To go; To have recourse;

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Used as a verb, listen here, it means: Someone or something to turn to for help. Also: A location for recreation and relaxation. Also: To go; To have recourse;. Used as a verb, listen here, it means: To again arrange or classify.

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  • Verb (used without object) : to resort to war. ,a beach to which many people resort
  • Noun : a popular winter resort. ,to have resort to force; a court of last resort
  • "That's what I called the resort when we opened in 2004."
  • But lo and behold, more and more hotels that bill themselves as "resorts" are charging what they call a resort amenities fee.
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  • ''resort" is a heteronym, which means you may find it with different pronunciations and different meanings.
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