last resort
noun
A final course of action, used only when all else has failed: asking them to leave the school should be a last resort [as modifier]: a last-resort treatment for lung cancer...
- Court action was, however, a last resort.
- War should in any case always be a last resort in settling an international conflict.
- In most cases, pesticides should be considered the last resort for reducing losses due to pests.
Phrases
as a first (or last or final) resort
in the last resort
- supersensual
- supersensualism
- supersensuous
- superserviceable
- supersession
- supersessionism
- supersessionist
- supersessive
- supersessor
- supersessory
- superset
- supersexual
- supersign
- supersize
- supersoap
- supersolid
- supersonic
- supersonically
- supersonics
- supersonic transport
- supersound
- superspace
- super-spatial
- superspecies
- superspreader