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resource re·source

Spelling: [ree-sawrs, -sohrs, -zawrs, -zohrs, ri-sawrs, -sohrs, - Resource 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 resource (ceeorrsu).

Definitions for resource

noun

1. a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
2. resources, the collective wealth of a country or its means of producing wealth.
3. Usually, resources. money, or any property that can be converted into money; assets.
4. Often, resources. an available means afforded by the mind or one's personal capabilities:
5. an action or measure to which one may have recourse in an emergency; expedient.
6. capability in dealing with a situation or in meeting difficulties:

Origin of resource

1640-50; French ressource, Old French ressourse, noun derivative of resourdre to rise up Latin resurgere, equivalent to re- re- + surgere to rise up, lift; see

Examples for resource

"And have left her no other resource," said Harry, coloring still more.

But they were told, that this was the resource of the Jews of old.

And for that, it turned to the one resource it has in abundance—aside from seawater.

Only the people, long-suffering and generous, remain as his resource.

This was his only resource against the unpleasantness of the day.

She was apt not only to know what she talked about, but she was a woman of resource, unafraid of action.

We fight over their ownership and control, as if reality were a resource as scarce as the water and oil in Mad Max.

She views music and pop culture as a resource for people to figure out where we are as a society.

For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy.

And he used that resource to its fullest 128 years ago this week.