MEANING
1. Access to, or use of, a person, resource, or procedure to obtain help or a remedy.
2. A lender’s right to seek repayment from assets beyond the property securing a loan.
Use it for
describing which remedies remain available; analyzing access to a process for challenging a decision; identifying a resource used when other approaches failDescribes an available route to help or redress and distinguishes a specific lender’s repayment right. Academic functions: Argumentation, Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- legal recourse
- have recourse to
- without recourse to a procedure
On the page
The policy leaves affected workers with little recourse when informal complaints fail.
The analysis asks whether citizens have meaningful recourse to an independent review process.
The discussion distinguishes security over an asset from the lender’s additional right of recourse.
Limited recourse changes which assets can be pursued if the financed project fails.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- recourse
Usage notes
Usually uncountable: recourse to + help, procedure or resource; have recourse to, without recourse. Financial recourse is also normally a mass noun. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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