resort1 nounresort2 verb
resortre‧sort1 /rɪˈzɔːt $ -ɔːrt/ ●●○ W3 noun 
WORD ORIGINresort1
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French resortir ‘to come back, resort’, from sortir ‘to go out’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Acapulco is one of Mexico's most popular resorts.
- Lift tickets at most ski resorts are about $30 to $40 a day.
- But there is a real danger that lucky resorts will be fully booked within hours of a good dump.
- In buildings of more than two storeys, wait for the fire brigade, and jump only as a last resort.
- It does not deal directly with possession of weapons, nor with the legitimacy of resort to war in the first place.
- Residential care should not be used as a last resort.
- That Government were able to carry through virtually all that legislation with hardly any resort to guillotine motions.
- This was not the resort of my dreams.
- We were joined there by George and Marion and we all went off to a skiing resort called Gargellen.
- When they run out of established holidays, resorts just make up their own.
Longman Language Activatora place where people go or stay on holidays
a place where a lot of people go for a holiday, especially one that has a lot of things specially provided for tourists such as hotels, swimming pools, organized activities etc: · Acapulco is one of Mexico's most popular resorts.· Lift tickets at most ski resorts are about $30 to $40 a day.
something such as a museum, place, event etc that tourists want to see: · Graceland, Elvis Presley's former home, is now a tourist attraction that draws more than 600,000 visitors every year.
a place where a lot of people like to go on holiday: · Amsterdam is the Netherlands' most popular tourist destination.· Phuket is an international tourist destination 430 miles south of Bangkok.
a place that a lot of tourists go to, but where hotels, food, gifts etc are more expensive than they should be, and that is often not as pleasant or interesting as tourists expect : · Residents are worried that the president's home town will turn into a tourist trap.
American a place where children go to stay for a short time and do special activities and have fun: · College students work at a camp for kids from the inner city, leading craft activities and sports competitions.· A girl's basketball camp is being organized by the City Recreation Department.summer camp: · He's going to a Boy Scout summer camp for two weeks in August.day camp (=a camp where children go during the day, but come home at night): · The YMCA is running a day camp with crafts, sports, and water fun.
British a place where people, especially families, go for their holidays and where there are a lot of organized activities: · She won a talent show at a holiday camp in Wales.
a holiday during which you travel on a large boat that has entertainment, restaurants, swimming pools etc: · The seven-day cruise stops at Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and other Mexican resorts.cruise liner/ship: · a luxury cruise ship
a trip in which you visit several different places with a group of other people: · The tour includes stops in Salzburg and Vienna.package tour (=a tour in which all the travel arrangements are made by the tour company): · Package tours that include tickets to Olympic events have sold well.
British /vacation home American a house that someone owns in a place such as the mountains or the coast where they go for their holidays: · Many Swedes have small vacation homes on a lake shore.
a holiday home that you buy with other people, so that each person can spend a period of time there: · They have a timeshare in Majorca.
American /campsite British a place where people can bring tents or vehicles that they sleep in, to stay in while they are on holiday : · Campgrounds in Glacier National Park open in late May and early June.· Most French towns have a municipal campsite.
a cheap hotel where people can stay for a short time while they are travelling on their holidays: · We stayed at a cheap hostel in the centre of Prague.
WORD SETSà la carte, adjectivebag, nounbaggage, nounB and B, bed and breakfast, nounbellboy, nounbellhop, nounboarder, nounboarding house, nounboardwalk, nouncaravanning, nouncaravanserai, nouncarry-on, adjectivecase, nounchalet, nouncheckout, nounclerk, nounconcierge, nouncourier, nouncourtesy, adjectivecruise, nouncruise ship, noundesk, noundesk clerk, noundining room, noundocent, noundude ranch, nounen suite, adjectiveexcursion, nounfirst class, nounflophouse, nounfly-drive holiday, nounfull board, noungame park, noungame reserve, noungreen card, nounguest book, nounguesthouse, nounguide, nounguided tour, nounhalf board, nounhand luggage, nounhigh season, nounholiday camp, nounholiday home, nounhostel, nounhostelry, nounhotel, nounhotelier, nounhousekeeper, nouninn, nounLilo, nounlow season, nounmecca, nounmotel, nounmotor home, nounmystery tour, nounnational monument, nounnational park, nounnight porter, nounnon-resident, nounone-star, adjectivepackage tour, nounpacking, nounpension, nounpiste, nounportmanteau, nounreception, nounresort, nounroom service, nounsafari, nounsafari park, nounself-catering, adjectiveshowplace, nounsightseeing, nounsightseer, nounstar, nounsuitcase, nounsuite, nounsundeck, nountimeshare, nountime-sharing, nountour, nountour, verbtourist, nountourist office, nountourist trap, nountouristy, adjectivetour operator, nountravel agency, nountravel agent, nountravel bureau, nountwo-star, adjectivevacancy, nounvacation, verbvacationer, nounvalet, nounvalise, nounvisit, verbvisitors' book, nounwatering place, nounwaxwork, nounyouth hostel, nounyouth hostelling, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + resort
He runs a fashionable restaurant near the Harbor. the popular seaside resort of Brighton
· There are plans to turn the town into a tourist resort.
· We stayed in a relaxed beach resort on the east coast.
· mountain resorts in Colorado
· the popular lakeside resort of Lake Como
· Benidorm is a terrific holiday resort.
· The lack of snow is causing problems for ski resorts.
· We booked ourselves into a health resort for a weekend of pure indulgence.
· The popular seaside resort of Brighton is 40 minutes away.
· It is a lively resort with plenty of bars and cafés.
(=lively and full of people)· The hotel is right in the middle of this bustling resort.
· Hastings was a once fashionable resort.
resort + NOUN· They're only a five minute stroll away from the main resort centre with all its bars, restaurants and nightlife.
· There are plans for a major resort hotel and golf course to be built.
(=a group of buildings, or a large building with many parts)· Club Hotel is part of a resort complex offering a range of facilities.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· This is one of the most popular beach resorts in Greece.
He runs a fashionable restaurant near the Harbor. (=a place with many hotels where a lot of people go on holiday)· a holiday resort in Spain
the popular seaside resort of Brighton (=use a tactic because there is no other way to do something)· Students resort to these tactics when they see no other way to address the problem.
· They were willing to resort to violence to achieve their ends.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Thus the mixture of people in the coastal resorts is different from that in the industrial towns.· This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts.· Some of the inland villages stood still in time and were quiet and peaceful respites from the glamour of the coastal resorts.· In the worst-case scenario, coastal resorts, ports and communities face disaster or vast expenditure on coastal protection works.
· Down Niddry Street stands the charming concert hall which was a fashionable resort in the eighteenth century.· Darjeeling was a fashionable hill resort.· From the fashionable Muskoka resorts of the 1920s to white water enthusiasts on the Ottawa River today.· For a brief time, this nook of County Durham was quite a fashionable holiday resort among the health-conscious.· Smaller stations, however, like that at the fashionable resort of Hua Hin, adopted a local multi-roofed pagoda style.
· As a final resort, ask your class teachers whether they have a spare copy to lend you.
· He can't afford to pay for a private nursing facility, and the County Home is a last resort.· If your sleep apnea is not relieved by these devices, surgery may be suggested as a last resort.· As a last resort they can take late-payers to the small claims court.· The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.· It is, at best, a last resort.· Only as a last resort does he employ them.· Sooner or later some country will refuse to practice the prescribed domestic austerity necessary to satisfy the international lenders of last resort.
· It's a lively and cosmopolitan resort, which as well as being scenic, offers enormous potential to the sports enthusiast.· Known for its high-spirited festivals and the local weaving trade, this lively resort has many restaurants and street stalls.· Puerto del Carmen A modern and lively resort with plenty of bars, cafés and boutiques to browse through.
· Kirchberg One of the most popular resorts in this brochure, and it's not hard to see why.· In summertime trains run as often as every ten minutes taking holiday-makers through to the popular resort.· The popular sea-side resort of Brighton is 40 minutes away.· Two traditionally popular resorts in the area are Bernkastel and Cochem.· The popular seaside resort of Brighton with its flamboyant Royal Pavilion is 8 miles away.· It is a very popular summer resort, with sea-water swimming pools in the rocks.
· Finikounda A new small specialist resort for windsurfers only, satisfactory for novices and ideal for intermediates.· This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts.
NOUN· Our resort areas are typical, but away from mass tourism.· If you went to a resort area you could rent a KUHCHalayn instead of staying at an expensive hotel.· There may therefore be substantial building work in the vicinity of your holiday accommodation or in the resort area generally.· A timeshare development in a resort area needs to have sufficient facilities to attract visitors all the year round.· Beardshaw and Morgan note the particular problem which letting for the holiday season creates in this popular resort area.
· Days 10-15 Mombasa 5 days in the glorious beach resort of Mombasa in the hotel of your choice.· El Salvador has only one major beach resort.· Days 12-15 Mombasa At leisure in your beach resort.· From a tough neighbourhood, they spend their first summer playing a rich beach resort club.· We stayed in the relaxed beach resort on the east coast of the island called Kamari.
· All are family run and stand in or very close to the resort centre.· Set on the main road - 15 minutes walk from the resort centre, local buses stop nearby.· The amenities of the resort centre are only a short walk away.· The resort centre is 15 minutes walk away.· It is also only a pleasant ten minutes walk from the resort centre of Sirmione.· The resort centre is about half a mile away and it's only a 5 minute walk to the sandy beach.
· The suitcase might have signs on or pictures of a holiday resort to add effect.· For a while, the plan worked splendidly and Cruden Bay was a smart holiday resort.· Penzance, once a centre of smuggling, is now very much a holiday resort.· Hastings began to try to get back to its pre-war holiday resort living.· The hotel itself has 290 rooms in a tower block and is a complete holiday resort hotel.· This is an all-round summer holiday resort with enough facilities to keep everybody happy.· This town, is a bustling holiday resort with a large, busy harbour and a jam-packed beach.
· Following fast on its heels is Ko Samui, once a hippy paradise, now with several resort hotels.· The target area was the coastal stretch between Alexandria and El Alamein, where resort hotels and luxury housing are developing.· The hotel itself has 290 rooms in a tower block and is a complete holiday resort hotel.· She concedes that her town was founded around a resort hotel.· But now they have removed all the goodies, the resort hotel and golf course.· Some employees of resort hotels are managers during the busy season and have other duties during the rest of the year.
· We last saw Kepesh, the son of Catskill Mountain resort operators, established in academia with one marriage behind him.
· On May 1st, all the players in the Yugoslav drama gathered at a seaside resort near Athens.· Once each year George and Doris secretly meet in a quaint seaside resort, rekindling what has become a 25-year fling.· The house is situated in the seaside resort of St. Anne's-on-Sea in Lancashire and is only a short walk from the beach.· And at 3: 43, the place began looking like some seaside resort during an East Coast hurricane.· From the top you could see right over the seaside resort out into the countryside beyond.· For 51 weeks of the year there's nothing particularly funny about the Sussex seaside resort of Bognor Regis.· The popular seaside resort of Brighton with its flamboyant Royal Pavilion is 8 miles away.· Llandudno, a Victorian seaside resort.
· For lodging information, begin by calling the ski resort of your choice.· Of course, we must not forget that these are ski resorts.· The artery, which links ski resorts and casinos to the rest of Northern California, was reopened Jan. 17.· Sadly, unscrupulous ski resorts might misuse the new polymer, surreptitiously dusting it on the slopes of their rivals.· She reportedly works at a local ski resort and keeps a few horses.· Father was a mountaineer; he made his fortune from the ski resorts on a mountain Grandfather had bought cheaply in Colorado.· At most ski resorts, large and small, there has been a sharper focus on day-care facilities and staff.
· The first cover story for the airstrip was that a group of businessmen wanted to start up a tourist resort there.
· Mentioning their names, how may you describe the hierarchy of resort towns?· Pegwell Bay, pleasure-beach adjacent to the resort town of Ramsgate, Kent.· Shanklin, resort town on the Isle of Wight, scene of the Lammles' honeymoon.· Mundesley in Norfolk was intended to be a new resort town in 1900 but never succeeded.· Wolverton and Eastleigh have been discussed earlier. other resort towns came in the nineteenth century.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► resort to something
1[countable] a place where a lot of people go for holidaysseaside/beach/ski etc resort- Great power status was in the last resort the ability to wage war.
- In buildings of more than two storeys, wait for the fire brigade, and jump only as a last resort.
- Lithium was to be a last resort, and it looked as if she needed some in October.
- Only in the last resort, under careful international policing and after all other attempts at persuasion have been exhausted.
- That was a last resort, they said.
- The guidance emphasises that restraint should be used as a last resort within a caring and disciplined home environment.
- They also want to use public community service jobs as a last resort, something Wilson strongly opposes.
- Who is the lender of last resort stopping financial panics and capital outflows from bringing the system down?
- A number of District Courts took the position on that issue that first resort should still be had to the Convention.
- However, your first resort in any query concerning the verification process should be your systems verifier.
- It will be seen that this falls somewhat short of the first resort approach, which the brief does not directly address.
- More fundamentally, many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach.
- The family was almost certainly the first resort.
- The role of the state was to be changed so that it would offer help in the last rather than in the first resort.
Aspen, a ski resort in Colorado Lagoon Reef is one of the best resort hotels.2last/final resort what you will do if everything else failsas a last resort Drug treatment should only be used as a last resort.of last resort a weapon of last resortin the last resort British English Economic sanctions will be used only in the last resort.3first resort what you will do first before you try other things: In the past, your family was the first resort when looking for a job.4resort to something formal when you must use or depend on something because nothing better is availablewithout resort to something We hope they will be able to resolve the situation without resort to force.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + resorta tourist resort· There are plans to turn the town into a tourist resort.a seaside/beach resort· We stayed in a relaxed beach resort on the east coast.a mountain resort· mountain resorts in Coloradoa lakeside resort· the popular lakeside resort of Lake Comoa holiday resort· Benidorm is a terrific holiday resort.a ski resort· The lack of snow is causing problems for ski resorts.a health resort· We booked ourselves into a health resort for a weekend of pure indulgence.a popular resort· The popular seaside resort of Brighton is 40 minutes away.a lively resort· It is a lively resort with plenty of bars and cafés.a bustling resort (=lively and full of people)· The hotel is right in the middle of this bustling resort.a fashionable resort· Hastings was a once fashionable resort.resort + NOUNa resort town/area/centre· They're only a five minute stroll away from the main resort centre with all its bars, restaurants and nightlife.a resort hotel· There are plans for a major resort hotel and golf course to be built.a resort complex (=a group of buildings, or a large building with many parts)· Club Hotel is part of a resort complex offering a range of facilities.resort1 nounresort2 verb
resortresort2 ●○○ verb VERB TABLE
resort
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | resort |
| he, she, it | resorts | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | resorted |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have resorted |
| he, she, it | has resorted | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had resorted |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will resort |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have resorted |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am resorting |
| he, she, it | is resorting | |
| you, we, they | are resorting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was resorting |
| you, we, they | were resorting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been resorting |
| he, she, it | has been resorting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been resorting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be resorting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been resorting |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Coelenterates will resort to territorial squabbles in the aquarium just as they do in the wild.
- He thinks some states and cities will resort to pump-priming their economies with spending on things like roads, airports and waste-management.
- In 1981 the government had to resort to crash purchases of kerosene to meet shortages.
- Merrill felt that students resort to these tactics when they see no other way to address the problem.
- People become so desperate to make contact with beasts and fowl that they resort to going on nature trails.
- Socrates finds satisfying, gut-wrenching answers to these and other universal questions without resorting to violence or to 911.
- With high demand and continuing short supply, Schofield said vintners are resorting to other measures.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Officials fear that extremists may resort to violence.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He runs a fashionable restaurant near the Harbor. the popular seaside resort of Brighton
resort to something phrasal verb to do something bad, extreme, or difficult because you cannot think of any other way to deal with a problem: Officials fear that extremists may resort to violence.· This is one of the most popular beach resorts in Greece.
He runs a fashionable restaurant near the Harbor. (=a place with many hotels where a lot of people go on holiday)· a holiday resort in Spain
the popular seaside resort of Brighton (=use a tactic because there is no other way to do something)· Students resort to these tactics when they see no other way to address the problem.
· They were willing to resort to violence to achieve their ends.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· By the twentieth edition synthesis had become a well-established mechanism for allowing detailed specification without resorting to exceedingly lengthy schedules.
NOUN· So they had to resort to indirect tactics.· Merrill felt that students resort to these tactics when they see no other way to address the problem.· The Kremlin has consistently opposed their return, invoking security problems and resorting to delaying tactics.· But Sunday afternoon, the demonstrators regained possession of the streets by resorting to their new tactic of creating gigantic traffic jams.· Why should women resort to such devious tactics?· With no help around, you may have to resort to another tactic - a risky one: going to ground.· By turning to the Falangist component of the regime forces in this way, Franco was resorting to an old tactic.· If all this fails, you may have to resort to another tactic.
· How can we deal with bullying without resorting to violence ourselves?· Socrates finds satisfying, gut-wrenching answers to these and other universal questions without resorting to violence or to 911.· There was evidence that passers-by were annoyed, and were on the verge of resorting to violence when the police intervened.· Officials fear extremists on both sides may resort to violence to try to derail the redeployment.
Officials fear that extremists may resort to violence.resort to doing something Vets have had to resort to killing the animals.- mother-in-law
- motherland
- motherless
- motherliness
- mother lode
- motherly
- Mother Nature
- Mother of God
- mother-of-pearl
- mother's boy
- Mother's Day
- mother ship
- Mother Shipton
- Mother's Pride
- Mother Superior
- Mother Teresa
- mother-to-be
- mother tongue
- motif
- motion
- motion control
- motion controller
- motionless
- motionlessly
- motion picture