0 using something or someone as a way of getting help, especially in a difficult or dangerous situation: --
It is hoped that the dispute will be settled without recourse to litigation.
1 a way of dealing with a difficult or unpleasant situation: --
2 help, usually in the form of an official system or process, for someone in a difficult situation: --
provide/seek recourse The Patients' Bill of Rights provides recourse for patients wishing to sue for damages.
without/with no recourse to We should be able to resolve these types of disputes without recourse to a public inquiry.
sb's (only) recourse is to do sth Their only recourse is to file for an appeal before an administrative law judge.
have recourse to sth Not everyone has recourse to expensive professional advice.
At present, older workers have no legal recourse if they think they have suffered age discrimination.
a recourse for sb The Ombudsman is a recourse for homeowners who feel let down by their estate agent.
3 the legal right of a lender to take assets belonging to the borrower in addition to the asset used to guarantee the loan, if the loan is not repaid: --
4 the legal right to demand payment from someone who has signed a cheque or bill of exchange if the money is not paid on the agreed date: --
His call to transcend boundaries reified the wills of visionary men and justified their violence through recourse to their moral intentions.
Many genetic disadvantages, for example, can be mitigated without recourse to actual genetic manipulation.
A broader explanation is needed, one that accounts for the evidence system-wide and that goes beyond recourse to the vagaries of oral transmission.
Such connections may well function to integrate information across the brain's perceptual and conceptual faculties, without recourse to a linguiform medium of thought.
But securing autonomy and the protection of bodily integrity need not rely on any such conceptual recourse.
After all, the paramount merit of his challenges is to highlight the knotty legal cruxes that judges handle by recourse to moral principles.
The consequent is explained by recourse to a cause-effect link.
Without recourse to foreign bilateral trade sources, reconstruction of long-term annual series would be impossible.
