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resource

UK/ɹɪˈzɔːs/US/ˈɹisɔɹs/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,652 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: resources

A resource is something available to be used when needed. Natural resources, a useful resource, resource management.

The word covers people, money, time and materials, which is why human resources came to name a department and why everybody objects to it. A resource is only a resource if it can actually be reached in time.

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Definitions of resource

  1. 1nounresourceSomething available to be used when needed.B1+

    “The library is a great resource for students who need a quiet space and free internet.”

resource is a supply.

Where it comes from

Old French resourse means a source or spring, from Latin resurgere, to rise again.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₃reǵ-

  2. Latin

    resurgō — to rise again, spring up anew

  3. Old French

    resourse

  4. Middle French

    ressource

  5. English, today

    resource

Built from

  • resource · Old French — a source, spring

Borrowed from Middle French ressource, from Old French resourse, resource (“a source, spring”), from resourdre, from Latin resurgō (“to rise again, spring up anew”). Equivalent to re- + source. See resourd, resurgent, source.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

resource in the wild

  • A web resource is located by a uniform resource locator (URL), using the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes http and https.

    HTTP

  • Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.

    Natural resource

  • Natural resources may be classified in different ways.

    Natural resource

  • Other URIs provide only a unique name, without a means of locating or retrieving the resource or information about it; these are Uniform Resource Names (URNs).

    Uniform Resource Identifier

  • The server may not have the resource or it may not wish to disclose whether it has the resource.

    HTTP 404

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the resurgō family

resourceresourceful

resource — used about once every 2,055 pages · #6,652 · point at the bar for the others

  • source
  • resourcefulness