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(rē′sôrs′, -zôrs′, rĭ-sôrs′, -zôrs′)n.
1. Something that is available for use or that can be used for support or help:The local library is a valuable resource.
2. oftenresources An available supply, especially of money, that can be drawn on when needed.
3. The ability to deal with a difficult or troublesome situation effectively; resourcefulness:a person of resource.
4. A means that can be used to cope with a difficult situation; an expedient:needed all my intellectual resources for the exam.
5.
a.resources The total means available for economic and political development, such as mineral wealth, labor force, and armaments.
b.resources The total means available to a company for increasing production or profit, including plant, labor, and raw material; assets.
c. Such means considered individually.
[Obsolete French, from Old French, from feminine past participle ofresourdre,to rise again, from Latinresurgere :re-,re- +surgere,to rise; see surge.]
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resources
(rɪˈzɔːsɪz; rɪˈsɔːsɪz)pl n
1. (Economics) sources of economic wealth, esp of a country (mineral, land, labour, etc) or business enterprise (capital, equipment, personnel, etc). See alsonatural resources
2.financial means; money
3.formal personal qualities such as intelligence, imagination, etc
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resources
The forces, materiel, and other assets or capabilities apportioned or allocated to the commander of a unified or specified command.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Various difficulties and inconveniences would be inseparable from such a situation; whereas one government, watching over the general and common interests, and combining and directing the powers andresources of the whole, would be free from all these embarrassments, and conduce far more to the safety of the people.
He has several times been compelled to owe obligations to the pecuniary succors of other nations for the preservation of his essential interests, and is unable, upon the strength of his ownresources, to sustain a long or continued war.
It is necessary to consider another point in examining the character of these principalities: that is, whether a prince has such power that, in case of need, he can support himself with his ownresources, or whether he has always need of the assistance of others.
His capital andresources had by this time greatly augmented, and he had risen from small beginnings to take his place among the first merchants and financiers of the country.
It will be time enough then to begin to muster ourresources to meet it."
"The United States is a capitalist country that has developed itsresources. According to its capitalist system of industry, it has an unconsumed surplus that must be got rid of, and that must be got rid of abroad.* What is true of the United States is true of every other capitalist country with developedresources.
All she now wants is teaching and practice, to make her sure of her ownresources. The experience of her, thus gained, has revived an idea in my mind which originally occurred to me at one of the "At Homes" of the late inimitable Charles Mathews, comedian.
Plan of the Salt Lake expedition Great sandy deserts Sufferings from thirst Ogden's River Trails and smoke of lurking savages Thefts at night A trapper's revenge Alarms of a guilty conscience A murderous victory Californian mountains Plains along the Pacific Arrival at Monterey Account of the place and neighborhood Lower California Its extent The Peninsula Soil Climate Production Its settlements by the Jesuits Their sway over the Indians Their expulsion Ruins of a missionary establishment Sublime scenery Upper California Missions Their power and policyResources of the country Designs of foreign nations
The news of my being free on bail drove Sir Percival, as I believe, to his lastresources. The attempted attack on the road was one of thoseresources, and the suppression of all practical proof of his crime, by destroying the page of the register on which the forgery had been committed, was the other, and the surest of the two.
The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband hisresources. The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish, tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his necessities.
THE Head Rifler of an insolvent bank, learning that it was about to be visited by the official Noser into Things, placed his own personal note for a large amount among itsresources, and, gaily touching his guitar, awaited the inspection.
In order to meet the payments then due; he had collected all hisresources, and, fearing lest the report of his distress should get bruited abroad at Marseilles when he was known to be reduced to such an extremity, he went to the Beaucaire fair to sell his wife's and daughter's jewels and a portion of his plate.
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