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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an expedient adopted only in desperation;
- Example: "`pis aller' is French for `worst going'"
[syn: pis aller, last resort]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Resort \Re*sort"\ (r?*z?rt"), n. [Cf. F. ressort jurisdiction. See Resort, v.] 1. The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force. [1913 Webster] Join with me to forbid him her resort. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt. [1913 Webster] Far from all resort of mirth. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge. [1913 Webster] Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

last resort n 1: an expedient adopted only in desperation; "`pis aller' is French for `worst going'" [syn: pis aller, last resort]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "last resort": action, ad hoc measure, answer, artifice, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, demarche, dernier ressort, device, dodge, effort, expedient, gimmick, hope, improvisation, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, last expedient, last shift, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, move, pis aller, recourse, resort, resource, shake-up, shift, solution, step, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, tactic, temporary expedient, trick, trump, working hypothesis, working proposition
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

LAST RESORT. A court of last resort, is one which decides, definitely, without appeal or writ of error, or any other examination whatever, a suit or action, or some other matter, which has been submitted to its judgment, and over which it has jurisdiction. 2. The supreme court is a court of last resort in all matters which legally come before it; and whenever a court possesses the power to decide without appeal or other examination whatever, a subject matter submitted to it, it is a court of last resort; but this is not to be understood as preventing an examination into its jurisdiction, or excess of authority, for then the judgment of a superior does not try and decide so much whether the point decided has been so done according to law, as to try the authority of the inferior court.