noun □ to have recourse to something to use something in an emergency (formal.) ○ In the end we had to have recourse to the life rafts. ○ We hope to settle the dispute without recourse to the courts.
re•course´
(r?•k?rs´), n. [F. recours, L. recursus a running back, return, fr. recurrere, recursum, to run back. See Recur.]
1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] ´Swift recourse of flushing blood.´ Spenser. “Unto my first I will have my recourse.” Chaucer. “Preventive physic … preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.” Sir T. Browne.
2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort. “Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.” Sir H. Wotton. “Our last recourse is therefore to our art.” Dryden.
3. Access; admittance. [Obs.] “Give me recourse to him.” Shak. Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.
1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] ´Swift recourse of flushing blood.´ Spenser. “Unto my first I will have my recourse.” Chaucer. “Preventive physic … preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.” Sir T. Browne.
2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort. “Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.” Sir H. Wotton. “Our last recourse is therefore to our art.” Dryden.
3. Access; admittance. [Obs.] “Give me recourse to him.” Shak. Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.
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