(v. t.) To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.
(n.) Befitting associates or attendants.
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Resort
Definition:
(n.) Active power or movement; spring.
(v. i.) To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
(v. i.) To fall back; to revert.
(v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
(v.) The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.
(v.) A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
(v.) That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(3) I told a police officer and a support worker that as a last resort I was thinking of getting on contact with Ash again.
(4) Indicators of the blood kinin system were studied in 57 persons including 42 patients with asthma and 15 healthy persons (control group) in the Kislovodsk health resort area.
(5) Still, there are some aspects of Palin’s channel to recommend it to the devoted movement conservative that isn’t necessarily already a fan of hers – especially its obviating the need to resort to Palinology.
(6) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
(7) Bilateral nephrectomy is reserved as a last resort.
(8) The low incidence of these complications (7.8%) is largely due to the systematic resort to the Leadbetter-Politano ureterovesical anastomosis, except in one case (uretero-ureterostomy due to the shortness of the graft).
(9) Lawyers have also resorted to various pieces of criminal legislation.
(10) Where to stay: Beachside bungalows at Coco Grove Beach Resort cost £19 per person.
(11) He told LBC radio that “resorting to that sort of language is possibly not in the national interest.
(12) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(13) The exploration resorted to fiberendoscopy of esophageal follow-through, pharyngoesophageal manometry, radiocinema, and MRI for some of the latter patients.
(14) Feckless Tom Bertram is a haunter of seaside resorts.
(15) At home, he’s besieged by leadership speculation of sufficient intensity to see his conservative allies resort to public verbal knife-fights.
(16) The deal gave Penn a Las Vegas casino for a fraction of what it cost to build the 390-room resort.
(17) The leaders of the world's eight wealthiest countries, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel, are due to meet at the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh for the conference on 17-18 June.
(18) The crackdown has alarmed activists and outspoken intellectuals, with some resorting to exile.
(19) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
(20) Alan Pardew's side have forgotten how to win at home and, resorting to too many aimless long, high balls, could find no way beyond the excellent James Collins and his fellow West Ham United defenders.