Resorter
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who resorts, or has recourse (to something)
"He is a frequent resorter to medicinal aids and appliance to combat old age and infirmity , but it is always God Who prescribes for him ."
- 2 A frequenter.
"As 'a common resorter to the houses of Popish recusants and a scoffer of goodness and good men' [i.e. Puritans] he could expect no less from the parliamentary authorities."
- 3 One who travels somewhere for recreation; a tourist or holidayer.
"[…] for this land of the north, outside of a few centers, has hardly been touched by the resorters, so vast are the uncamped and uncottaged stretches."
- 4 A person who runs a resort
"When all has been said and done, the crucial problem of the resorter is to attract the tourist to his particular resort ."
- 5 The process by which property that was previously transferred or granted to a new owner reverts or is reclaimed by the original owner or that person's heirs.
"And even if the reversion is understood in such a case to be the donor and his heirs, a resorter to a stranger ought not to be understood so widely."
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- 6 Some or something that sorts previously sorted items.
"Unsalable fruit (over 20 percent of that reaching the resorter) is hauled away and dumped."
Example
More examples"He is a frequent resorter to medicinal aids and appliance to combat old age and infirmity , but it is always God Who prescribes for him ."
Etymology
From resort + -er.
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