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Resource   /rˈisɔrs/   Listen
Resource

noun
1.
Available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed.
2.
A source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed.
3.
The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems.  Synonyms: imagination, resourcefulness.



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"Resource" Quotes from Famous Books



... men; so, however bravely you may fight, you will be in peril from the superior numbers of your enemy. However, if you are pleased to persist in your refusal to take us, we have made up our minds that there is no resource for us but to disembowel ourselves ...
— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
... by the sword: but the King's military means and military talents were unequal to the task. To impose fresh taxes on England in defiance of law, would, at this conjuncture, have been madness. No resource was left but a Parliament; and in the spring of ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... But courage and resource and knowledge had got their chance. His opponents had gone about to make a marked man of Sir Charles Dilke; within six months they had established his position beyond challenge ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... view. The American hare, and several kinds of grouse and ptarmigan, also contribute towards the support of the natives; and the geese, in their periodical flights in the spring and autumn, likewise prove a valuable resource both to the Indians and white residents; but the principal article of food, after the moose-deer, is fish; indeed, it forms almost the sole support of the traders at some of the posts. The most esteemed fish is the Coregonus albus, the attihhawmeg of the Crees, and the white-fish ...
— Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 • John Franklin
... Lesotho's only important natural resource is water. Its economy is based on subsistence agriculture, livestock, and remittances from miners employed in South Africa. The number of such mine workers has declined steadily over the past several years. In 1996 their remittances ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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