RESORT

Resort

A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation, attracting visitors for vacations and/or tourism. Resorts are places, towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company.

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resort

Noun

  1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
  2. Recourse, refuge .
    to have resort to violence
  3. A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. An act of sorting again.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. Active power or movement; spring.

Verb

  1. To make one's way, go (to).
  2. To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
  3. To fall back; to revert.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. to repeat a sorting process; sort again


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