resort

  • 11resort — [n1] vacation place camp, fat farm*, hangout, harbor, haunt, haven, hideaway, hideout, holiday spot, hotel, hot spring*, inn, lodge, mineral spring, motel, nest, park, purlieu, refuge, rendezvous, retreat, spa, spot, spring, stomping ground*,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 12Resort — Re*sort (r?*z?rt ), n. [F. ressort.] Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 13resort — I verb administer, adopt, apply, avail oneself of, bring into play, call forth, employ, enlist, exercise, fall back upon, have recourse, look to, make use of, practice, press into service, put to use, try, turn to for help, turn to for support,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 14resort to — index employ (make use of), exploit (make use of) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 15resort — /reˈsort, ingl. rɪˈzɔːt/ [vc. ingl., propr. «frequentazione»] s. m. inv. hotel (ingl.), relais (fr.) …

    Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione

  • 16Resort — A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation, attracting visitors for holidays or vacations. Resorts are places, towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company. Such a self contained resort attempts to provide… …

    Wikipedia

  • 17resort — re|sort1 W3 [rıˈzo:t US o:rt] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: resortir to come back, resort , from sortir to go out ] 1.) a place where a lot of people go for holidays seaside/beach/ski etc resort ▪ Aspen, a ski resort in Colorado ▪… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 18resort — ▪ I. resort re‧sort 1 [rɪˈzɔːt ǁ ɔːrt] verb resort to something phrasal verb [transitive] to take a bad or unpleasant course of action because everything else has failed: • The company may resort to a temporary closure of its only plant. • We… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 19resort — 1 noun 1 (C) a place where people often go for holidays: seaside/beach/mountain etc resort: a seaside resort south of Tokyo | resort hotel/beach/town: Jan and Matt run a small resort hotel in Vermont. 2 as a last resort/in the last resort used to …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 20resort — I n. recourse 1) (formal) to have resort to 2) a last resort (as a last resort) recreational center 3) a health; holiday, vacation (esp. AE); summer; winter resort II v. (d; intr.) to resort to (to resort to trickery) * * * [rɪ zɔːt] holiday …

    Combinatory dictionary