recourse

Definitions


[rɪˈkɔːs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a source of help in a difficult situation
(e.g: surgery may be the only recourse)


Phrases:
- without recourse

Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘running or flowing back’): from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, from re- ‘back, again’ + cursus ‘course, running’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries