a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
resources,the collective wealth of a country or its means of producing wealth.
Usually resources.money, or any property that can be converted into money; assets.
Often resources.an available means afforded by the mind or one's personal capabilities: to have resource against loneliness.
an action or measure to which one may have recourse in an emergency; expedient.
capability in dealing with a situation or in meeting difficulties: a woman of resource.
Origin of resource
1640–50; <French ressource,Old French ressourse, noun derivative of resourdre to rise up <Latin resurgere, equivalent to re-re- + surgere to rise up, lift; see resurge, source
What’s more, it can use up precious resources on these devices if they can even support a software agent.
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The National Guard is designed to come in when all other resources are exhausted.
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The city’s not only overlooking the Mission Valley aquifer water as a resource – it’s planning to build a multibillion-dollar water purification project called Pure Water right over it.
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Information on these resources will be available via a centralized hub for parents.
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We fight over their ownership and control, as if reality were a resource as scarce as the water and oil in Mad Max.
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She views music and pop culture as a resource for people to figure out where we are as a society.
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For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy.
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And he used that resource to its fullest 128 years ago this week.
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And for that, it turned to the one resource it has in abundance—aside from seawater.
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"Unfortunately I have no resource but to believe it," he replied.
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Whether the King has any resource left, or whether he will (as I rather think) acquiesce, God knows.
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These are the times that test the wit and diplomacy and resource of the girl behind the counter.
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Mrs Oliphant, much younger than the others, seems to have been a woman of resource.
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Had Sarah said, "Nature has failed me, but God is my resource," how different it would have been!
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British Dictionary definitions for resource
resource
/ (rɪˈzɔːs, -ˈsɔːs) /
noun
capability, ingenuity, and initiative; quick-wittednessa man of resource
(often plural)a source of economic wealth, esp of a country (mineral, land, labour, etc) or business enterprise (capital, equipment, personnel, etc)
a supply or source of aid or support; something resorted to in time of need
a means of doing something; expedient
Derived forms of resource
resourceless, adjectiveresourcelessness, noun
Word Origin for resource
C17: from Old French ressourse relief, from resourdre to rise again, from Latin resurgere, from re- + surgere to rise