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recourse
[ ree-kawrs, -kohrs, ri-kawrs, -kohrs ]
noun
- access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection:
to have recourse to the courts for justice.
- a person or thing resorted to for help or protection.
- the right to collect from a maker or endorser of a negotiable instrument. The endorser may add the words “without recourse” on the instrument, thereby transferring the instrument without assuming any liability.
recourse
/ ɪˈɔː /
noun
- the act of resorting to a person, course of action, etc, in difficulty or danger (esp in the phrase have recourse to )
- a person, organization, or course of action that is turned to for help, protection, etc
- the right to demand payment, esp from the drawer or endorser of a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument when the person accepting it fails to pay
- without recoursea qualified endorsement on such a negotiable instrument, by which the endorser protects himself or herself from liability to subsequent holders
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of recourse1
Example Sentences
The disturbances have upset residents, prompting complaints to local police who have had little recourse because his speech is protected by the 1st Amendment and no victims came forward.
The Venezuelans dispatched to El Salvador have no legal recourse for appeal or release, attorneys say, and may face indefinite detention.
Audiences have no choice but to exist in the theatrical moment, without recourse to linear logic, sententious language or psychological epiphanies.
Concerns were repeatedly raised about PIP assessors lacking knowledge of specific conditions and decisions being taken without recourse to medical evidence or contacting those involved in a claimant's care.
The probation department refused the state’s order to close Los Padrinos, and state board members have said they don’t know what legal recourse they have to enforce it.
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