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Showing words for RECOURSE using the English dictionary
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Definitions for Recourse
[1] access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection: to have recourse to the courts for justice.
[2] a person or thing resorted to for help or protection.
[3] the right to collect from a maker or endorser of a negotiable instrument. The endorser may add the words “without recourse” on the instrument, thereby transferring the instrument without assuming any liability.
[4] the act of resorting to a person, course of action, etc, in difficulty or danger (esp in the phrase have recourse to )
[5] a person, organization, or course of action that is turned to for help, protection, etc
[6] the right to demand payment, esp from the drawer or endorser of a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument when the person accepting it fails to pay
[7] without recourse a qualified endorsement on such a negotiable instrument, by which the endorser protects himself or herself from liability to subsequent holders
Words related to Recourse
remedy, stopgap, resource, help, expediency, shift, support, substitute, choice, resort, makeshift, expedient, aid, appeal, refuge, option, stand-by
Words nearby Recourse
recordist, recordkeeping, recount, recountal, recoup, recourse, recover, recoverable, recoverable error, recovered memory, recovery
Origin of Recourse
1350–1400; Middle English recours < Old French < Late Latin recursus, Latin: return, retreat, noun use of past participle of recurrere to run back; see recur
Word origin for Recourse
C14: from Old French recours , from Late Latin recursus a running back, from re- + currere to run
Synonyms for Recourse
remedy, aid, appeal, choice, expediency, expedient, help, makeshift, option, refuge, resort, resource, shift, stopgap, substitute, support, stand-by, way out