Recourse

n.	1.	A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. Unto my first I will have my recourse. - Chaucer. Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary. - Sir T. Browne.
	2.	Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort. Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him. - Sir H. Wotton. Our last recourse is therefore to our art. - Dryden.
	3.	Access; admittance. Give me recourse to him. - Shak. Without recourse (Commerce) words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.
v. i.	1.	To return; to recur. The flame departing and recoursing. - Foxe.
	2.	To have recourse; to resort.

Noun	1.	recourse - act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort" Synonyms: refuge, resort
	2.	recourse - something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying" Synonyms: refuge, resort

ability, access, admittance, agency, alternative, availability, backup, capacity, capital, dernier ressort, device, devices, disposable resources, entree, expediency, expedient, funds, going between, hope, instrumentality, intermediation, last resort, machinery, makeshift, means, mechanism, mediation, method, pis aller, power, recourses, refuge, remedy, reserve, resort, resorts, resource, resources, service, shift, stock, stopgap, substitute, supply, ways, ways and means, wherewith, wherewithal

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