RESOURCE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Resource

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rˈisɔrs/ Listen

noun

Resource n.

That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient. "Threat'nings mixed with prayers, his last resource."

pl. Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind. "Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources."

Synonyms: Expedient; resort; means; contrivance.

See images of 'Resource'

Etymology of 'Resource'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Resource" Quotes from Famous Books

... conduct of the war forbid us to call him a great war minister in the narrow sense of the term, we should scarcely refuse that praise in a wider, truer sense to a minister so dauntless in adversity, so fertile in resource, so deservedly trusted by the nation as "the ...

— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt

... Another resource for family diversion is to be found in the various games played by children, and in which the joining of older members of the family is always a great advantage to both parties, especially ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... Measures are daily used for executing that Purpose. It is impossible to procure Vessels enough at New York, so that the Measure must be delayed till such Time as more Vessels can be brought through the Sound from Connecticut; however, I am not without Apprehensions that this Resource will be cut off, as I understand that some of the Enemy's Vessels have sailed out of the Hook with an Intention (probably) of cutting off ...

— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston

... the window—that never-failing resource of the unquiet mind—and looked out. He was a little surprised to find, that, owing to the grading of the house, the scrub-oaks and bushes of the hill were nearly on the level of his window, as also was the adjoining ...

— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... are caught for the Valparaiso market. The sheltered waters of the broken southern coast, however, are rich in fish and molluscs, especially in mussels, limpets and barnacles, which are the principal food resource of the nomadic Indian tribes of those regions. A large species of barnacle, Balanus psittacus, is found in great abundance from Concepcion to Puerto Montt, and is not only eaten by the natives, by whom it is called pico, but is also esteemed a great delicacy in the markets ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various

More quotes...