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Resort
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- 1 A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
"Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?"
- 2 Alternative spelling of re-sort. alt-of, alternative
""If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1."
- 3 Active power or movement; spring. obsolete
"Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it."
- 4 act of turning to for assistance wordnet
- 5 Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
"to have resort to violence"
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- 6 something or someone turned to for assistance or security wordnet
- 7 A place where one goes habitually; a haunt. obsolete
"Far from all reſort of mirth,"
- 8 a frequently visited place wordnet
- 9 A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
- 10 a hotel located in a resort area wordnet
- 1 To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration. intransitive
"The king thought it time to resort to other counsels."
- 2 Alternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography) alt-of, alternative, intransitive, transitive
- 3 move, travel, or proceed toward some place wordnet
- 4 To fall back; to revert. intransitive
"But the Inheritance of the Son never reſorted to the Mother, or to any of her Anceſtors, but both ſhe and they were totally excluded from the Succeſſion."
- 5 have recourse to wordnet
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- 6 To make one's way, go (to). intransitive
"The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore."
Etymology
From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).
From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).
From re- + sort.
From re- + sort.
From French ressort.
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