Recourse
noun
A source of help or support you can use when other methods have failed.
When all other avenues of complaint have been explored, employees will have recourse to the dispute procedures.
Often appears as...
- have recourse to
- without recourse to
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Formal
noun
The right to demand payment from the person who signed a commercial paper (like a check or promissory note), if the first person to whom it was made fails to pay.
The bank has recourse to the guarantor if the loan is not paid.
Often appears as...
- with recourse
- without recourse
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Formal
Technical
noun
A source of help or support you can use when other methods have failed.
When all other avenues of complaint have been explored, employees will have recourse to the dispute procedures.
Often appears as...
- have recourse to
- without recourse to
Usage tips
Formal
noun
The right to demand payment from the person who signed a commercial paper (like a check or promissory note), if the first person to whom it was made fails to pay.
The bank has recourse to the guarantor if the loan is not paid.
Often appears as...
- with recourse
- without recourse
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Problem Solving
Used when describing a final aid or option after others have failed.
After trying to resolve the issue with the manager, the customer sought recourse in consumer court.
Pro Tip 2/3Support System
Indicates something or someone you can rely on for help.
Students have recourse to tutors when they cannot understand the lecture.
Pro Tip 3/3Not First Choice
Suggests that recourse is not the primary option but a backup.
I would normally fix it myself, but as a last recourse, I'll call a professional.
Pro Tip 1/3Problem Solving
Used when describing a final aid or option after others have failed.
After trying to resolve the issue with the manager, the customer sought recourse in consumer court.
Pro Tip 2/3Support System
Indicates something or someone you can rely on for help.
Students have recourse to tutors when they cannot understand the lecture.
Pro Tip 3/3Not First Choice
Suggests that recourse is not the primary option but a backup.
I would normally fix it myself, but as a last recourse, I'll call a professional.
Pro Tip 1/3Problem Solving
Used when describing a final aid or option after others have failed.
After trying to resolve the issue with the manager, the customer sought recourse in consumer court.
Pro Tip 2/3Support System
Indicates something or someone you can rely on for help.
Students have recourse to tutors when they cannot understand the lecture.
Pro Tip 3/3Not First Choice
Suggests that recourse is not the primary option but a backup.
I would normally fix it myself, but as a last recourse, I'll call a professional.
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How the blockchain will...
in economics, but I want to go through three forms of it that we face in almost all of our everyday transactions, where blockchains can play a role. We face uncertainties like not knowing who we're dealing with, not having visibility into a transaction and not having recourse if things go wrong.
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My Country Will Be...
or we have to build up the islands to continue to stay out of the water as the sea level rises and as the storms get more severe. But even that, it's going to be very, very difficult to get the kind of resourcing that we would need. And then the only recourse is some form of forced migration.
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The exploitation of US...
and fairly allocate the billions of dollars being generated. Let's create robust health and safety standards to protect those who entertain us with their bodies and enforce those standards. Let's provide college athletes with a representative body so they have recourse when things go wrong
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Robin Chase: Excuse me,...
What does it do really well? It creates economies of scale, significant and long-term resource investment, the expertise of many different kinds of people and different kinds of minds, and for individuals, consumers, it's bringing the standards, rules and recourse
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Michael Sandel: Why we...
to stand waiting in the line for as long as it takes, and the lobbyist, just before the hearing begins, can take his or her place at the head of the line and a seat in the front of the room. Paid line standing. It's happening, the recourse to market mechanisms
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Excuse me, may I rent...
significant and long-term resource investment the expertise of many different kinds of people and different kinds of minds and for individuals consumers is bringing the standards rules and recourse that we really want as consumers and this is kind of bound up
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Pirates, nurses and...
without recourse to traditional stereotypes. All of these designers and many more are pursuing their dreams, by the making the most of their newfound freedom, with the discipline of professional designers and the resourcefulness of rebels and renegades.
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Why I choose humanism...
Humanism stresses the fact that we, human beings, are capable of changing the world. That we have the power to make a difference in our lives, both individually and collectively, without recourse to some outside force.
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Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
by sharks many of them sink you're not seen again some of them are able to make it back to the beach the lucky ones may get a second chance but for many there is no recourse it's truly hard wrenching
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A Very Intelligent Bear...
return after it has been relocated in those cases Rangers have no recourse but to euthanize the bear despite your cemeteries best efforts to educate the visiting public people continue to leave
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How the blockchain will...
in economics, but I want to go through three forms of it that we face in almost all of our everyday transactions, where blockchains can play a role. We face uncertainties like not knowing who we're dealing with, not having visibility into a transaction and not having recourse if things go wrong.
Video examples
My Country Will Be...
or we have to build up the islands to continue to stay out of the water as the sea level rises and as the storms get more severe. But even that, it's going to be very, very difficult to get the kind of resourcing that we would need. And then the only recourse is some form of forced migration.
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The exploitation of US...
and fairly allocate the billions of dollars being generated. Let's create robust health and safety standards to protect those who entertain us with their bodies and enforce those standards. Let's provide college athletes with a representative body so they have recourse when things go wrong
Video examples
Robin Chase: Excuse me,...
What does it do really well? It creates economies of scale, significant and long-term resource investment, the expertise of many different kinds of people and different kinds of minds, and for individuals, consumers, it's bringing the standards, rules and recourse
Video examples
Michael Sandel: Why we...
to stand waiting in the line for as long as it takes, and the lobbyist, just before the hearing begins, can take his or her place at the head of the line and a seat in the front of the room. Paid line standing. It's happening, the recourse to market mechanisms
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Excuse me, may I rent...
significant and long-term resource investment the expertise of many different kinds of people and different kinds of minds and for individuals consumers is bringing the standards rules and recourse that we really want as consumers and this is kind of bound up
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Pirates, nurses and...
without recourse to traditional stereotypes. All of these designers and many more are pursuing their dreams, by the making the most of their newfound freedom, with the discipline of professional designers and the resourcefulness of rebels and renegades.
Video examples
Why I choose humanism...
Humanism stresses the fact that we, human beings, are capable of changing the world. That we have the power to make a difference in our lives, both individually and collectively, without recourse to some outside force.
Video examples
Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
by sharks many of them sink you're not seen again some of them are able to make it back to the beach the lucky ones may get a second chance but for many there is no recourse it's truly hard wrenching
Video examples
A Very Intelligent Bear...
return after it has been relocated in those cases Rangers have no recourse but to euthanize the bear despite your cemeteries best efforts to educate the visiting public people continue to leave
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Quote examples
Erin Brockovich
American Activist
Preemption is not about the Essure women - it affects all consumers. If someone had a medical device installed, there's no recourse for victims, and the company is protected. If there's a problem, the company gets a pass because they have preemption. It dawned on me the consumer didn't know. The women didn't know that this existed.
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Shane Black
American Actor
You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.
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Janet Reno
American Public Servant
The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Theologian
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
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N. K. Jemisin
American Writer
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.
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Evan McMullin
American Public Servant
Democracies don't fight each other. Terrorists don't tend to come from places where they feel like they have recourse in a political system.
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian Poet
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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Jose Angel Gurria
Mexican Economist
Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.
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Erin Brockovich
American Activist
Preemption is not about the Essure women - it affects all consumers. If someone had a medical device installed, there's no recourse for victims, and the company is protected. If there's a problem, the company gets a pass because they have preemption. It dawned on me the consumer didn't know. The women didn't know that this existed.
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Shane Black
American Actor
You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.
Quote examples
Janet Reno
American Public Servant
The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Theologian
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
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N. K. Jemisin
American Writer
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.
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Evan McMullin
American Public Servant
Democracies don't fight each other. Terrorists don't tend to come from places where they feel like they have recourse in a political system.
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian Poet
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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Jose Angel Gurria
Mexican Economist
Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.
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