0 a useful or valuable possession or quality of a country, organization, or person: --
1 to provide an organization or department with money or equipment: --
2 something that can be used to help you: --
3 a useful or valuable possession or quality that a person or organization has, for example, money, time, or skills: --
IT/technical resources
pool/share resources When times are hard we are asked to pool our resources, but it doesn't always work.
limited/scarce resources The department has limited resources, and would struggle to cope in such a situation.
have the resources to do sth The company has the resources and infrastructure to manage a global brand.
4 a useful or valuable possession, such as oil or gas, that a country has and that can be sold: --
5 the ability to make decisions and act on your own: --
He has great resource.
It is also not unique in suffering high levels of air and water pollution and facing severe threats to its biological resources.
As far as the literature on sustainable development is concerned, this tends to view economic growth as limited by the finiteness of environmental resources.
The primary sector (agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining) tends to be more resource-intensive than either the secondary (industry) or tertiary (services) sectors.
In these analyses, we found that certain donor characteristics and patient diagnoses were associated with substantially greater resource use.
Given the substantially low level of public investment in secondary education, secondary schools can only make modest contribution to student learning with their limited resources.
As such, it will be a welcome resource for students.
Thereby this reduces interspecific competition for resources, including mates, in the case of members of the same species.
Certainly such processes may sometimes relate causally to changes in material conditions including subsistence resources and practices.
