resort

A place where people stay on holiday, with rooms, activities, and things to help them relax.

• We stayed at a beach resort.
• The resort has three swimming pools.
• Which ski resorts are open in April?

Similar words: holiday centre

Common phrases: beach resort, ski resort, luxury resort, seaside resort

Someone or something you turn to for help, protection, or a solution when other choices fail.

• Surgery is a last resort.
• His savings were his only resort in an emergency.
• They solved the dispute without resort to violence.

How to use it: as a last resort (Call the emergency number only as a last resort.); have resort to something (They had resort to the courts when negotiations failed.)

Similar words: recourse, refuge

Common phrases: last resort, resort to violence, final resort

To use an unpleasant action or method because you cannot find a better choice.

• Don't resort to threats.
• We resorted to borrowing money from friends.
• Why did they resort to force?

How to use it: resort to something (They refused to resort to violence.); resort to doing something (We resorted to sleeping on the floor.)

Similar words: fall back on, turn to

Common phrases: resort to violence, resort to force, resort to something

To arrange things into groups or order again.

• Please resort these cards.
• She resorted the names alphabetically.
• We need to resort the folders by year.

How to use it: resort something by something (Please resort the files by date.)

Similar words: reorder, sort again

Common phrases: resort the files, resort a list, resort by date