resort
/ɹɪˈzɔɹt/ noun B1- A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
- Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety). · to have resort to violence
- A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
Plural resorts
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“And will you engage not to do any harm to the sentry, except as a last resort?”
“I say that Monte Cristo is an island in the midst of the Mediterranean, without inhabitants or garrison, the resort of smugglers of all nations, and pirates of every flag.
Consequently, workers often resort to wearing noise-canceling headphones, inadvertently building invisible walls to replace the physical ones that were removed.
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