resource
Pronunciation: /rɪˈsɔːs, rɪˈzɔːs/
noun
- 1 (usually resources) a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively: local authorities complained that they lacked resources
- (resources) a country’s collective means of supporting itself or becoming wealthier, as represented by its reserves of minerals, land, and other natural assets: Japan’s exploitation of commercially important marine resources
- a source of help or information: census records are an invaluable resource for the historian the database could be used as a reference and teaching resource
- (resources) North American available assets.
- 2an action or strategy which may be adopted in adverse circumstances: sometimes anger is the only resource left in a situation like this
- (resources) personal attributes and capabilities regarded as able to help or sustain one in adverse circumstances: we had been left very much to our own resources
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verb
Origin:
early 17th century: from obsolete French ressourse, feminine past participle (used as a noun) of Old French dialect resourdre 'rise again, recover' (based on Latin surgere 'to rise')