ALL meanings of recourse
re·course
R r - noun recourse access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection: to have recourse to the courts for justice. 1
- noun recourse a person or thing resorted to for help or protection. 1
- noun recourse 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. 1
- noun recourse resort, appeal: for help 1
- abbreviation RECOURSE resort 1
- noun recourse sb or sth turned to for help 1
- uncountable noun recourse If you achieve something without recourse to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have recourse to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something. 0
- noun recourse the act of resorting to a person, course of action, etc, in difficulty or danger (esp in the phrase have recourse to) 0
- noun recourse a person, organization, or course of action that is turned to for help, protection, etc 0
- noun recourse 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 0
- noun recourse a turning or seeking for aid, safety, etc. 0
- noun recourse that to which one turns seeking aid, safety, etc. 0
- noun recourse the right to demand payment from the maker or endorser of a negotiable instrument, as a bill of exchange 0