Definitions for recourse

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recourse re·course

Spelling: [ree-kawrs, -kohrs, ri-kawrs, -kohrs]

IPA: /ˈri kɔrs, -koʊrs, rɪˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrs/

Recourse is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in recourse (ceeorrsu).

Definitions for recourse

noun

1. access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection:
2. a person or thing resorted to for help or protection.
3. the right to collect from a maker or endorser of a negotiable instrument. The endorser may add the words “without recourse” on the instrument, thereby transferring the instrument without assuming any liability.

Origin of recourse

1350-1400; Middle English recours Old French Late Latin recursus, Latin: return, retreat, noun use of past participle of recurrere to run back; see recur

Examples for recourse

I know that it might get nowhere, but this is my only recourse.

When once a man has recourse to reason and precision, there is an end of love.

When did a rheumatic ploughman have recourse to Bath or Buxton?

Had the board decided to give Eich a few weeks to prove himself, those who disagreed would have had no recourse.

So, in this dilemma, I had recourse to a piece of jesuitry, of which I was not a little proud.

However well-intentioned, we are not sure that this bill would be the most effective means of recourse.

They, according to one juror, who spoke to Nightline, believed Dunn had no recourse but to shoot.

So much the worse for him, if he has not recourse to their remedies.

What recourse would they have to prove that they should be eligible for release?

I am grieved to be driven to have recourse to the following artifices.