- recourse⇄expr. have recourse to, to appeal to; turn to for help.
Ex. If we do not know what a word means, we have recourse to a dictionary. If threats and persuasions proved ineffectual, he had often recourse to violence (Edward Gibbon). - recourse⇄recourse, noun.
1. the act of turning for help or protection; appealing.
Ex. Our recourse in illness is to a doctor.
2. a person or thing appealed to or turned to for help or protection.
Ex. His only recourse in trouble was his fa