Synonyms for resort
rɪˈzɔrt

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1. resort, resort hotel, holiday resort(noun)

   a hotel located in a resort area

   Synonyms:
   repair, spa, recourse, stamping ground, hangout, holiday resort, refuge, resort hotel, haunt

2. haunt, hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground(noun)

   a frequently visited place

   Synonyms:
   repair, mending, reparation, fixture, stamping ground, mend, fix, fixing, hangout, holiday resort, refuge, resort hotel, recourse, haunt

3. recourse, refuge, resort(noun)

   something or someone turned to for assistance or security

   "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"

   Synonyms:
   repair, sanctuary, stamping ground, asylum, holiday resort, hangout, recourse, refuge, resort hotel, haunt, safety

4. recourse, resort, refuge(verb)

   act of turning to for assistance

   "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"

   Synonyms:
   repair, sanctuary, stamping ground, asylum, hangout, holiday resort, refuge, resort hotel, recourse, haunt, safety

5. fall back, resort, recur(verb)

   have recourse to

   "The government resorted to rationing meat"

   Synonyms:
   lag, repeat, lapse, recidivate, retrogress, fall behind, regress, go back, drop off, lose, dawdle, fall back, recur, recede, relapse, repair

6. repair, resort(verb)

   move, travel, or proceed toward some place

   "He repaired to his cabin in the woods"

   Synonyms:
   recreate, recur, animate, mend, quicken, bushel, reanimate, furbish up, revivify, renovate, restore, recompense, touch on, fall back, rectify, indemnify, revive, doctor, fix, compensate, amend, vivify, remedy, repair, remediate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. resort(v)

   Synonyms:
   repair, fly, retire, retreat

   Antonyms:
   shun, ignore, avoid, discard

2. resort(n)

   Synonyms:
   assembly, betaking, repairing, haunt, frequentation, employment, recourse

   Antonyms:
   shunning, avoidance, forsaking, abandonment, desertion

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. resort(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   go, repair, apply, have recourse, betake one's self

2. resort(n.)

   Synonyms:
   recourse

3. resort(n.)

   Synonyms:
   haunt, den, retreat, place much frequented

4. resort(n.)

   Synonyms:
   concourse, meeting, confluence

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1. List of paraphrases:

   recourse, resorting, remedy, appeal, resource, use, asylum, remedies, resorts, instance, rely, refuge, redress

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How to use resort in a sentence?

1. Terry Dittes:

   We do not take this lightly, this is our last resort.

2. Charles Blanke:

   Doctors are obligated to help patients in ways likely to make a difference in their quality of life – controlling pain, improving mood, addressing sleeplessness, etc. – and should offer chemotherapy only as a last resort for those who still want it after true informed consent as to the unlikelihood of it doing any good, doctors need to emphasize they will not abandon the patient with end-stage disease, and that there are ways to help that are not ‘ active treatment, ’.

3. Andrew Kaip:

   It is a sign of the times, equity markets are to a large degree closed... Miners are looking for alternatives. Unfortunately this is an alternative of last resort.

4. County Executive Dow Constantine:

   That would be an absolute last resort.

5. Thomas J. Watson:

   All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

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