resort to
phrasal verbresort to something
- to make use of something, especially something bad, as a means of achieving something, often because there is no other possible solution synonym recourse
- They felt obliged to resort to violence.
- They achieved their demands without having to resort to force.
- We had to resort to another loan from the bank.
- resort to doing something We may have to resort to using untrained staff.
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