noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
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If the borrower should default, the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance.
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There was no legal recourse , because none of this discrimination was illegal.
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If it is not, however, Hardy has little legal recourse .
only
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Recurrences are otherwise quite likely, and, ultimately, surgery may be the only recourse .
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Their only recourse was to crowd into the slum areas around.
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In the absence of these rare pointers guesswork may be the only recourse .
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Because it can not cope with so many messages, its only recourse is to sabotage the airwaves themselves.
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Her only recourse was to make a formal appeal through her lawyer.
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Protests were made on their behalf but, as Henry Toch discovered, self-help was the only effective recourse .
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When her assailant is released and rapes again, her only recourse is yet again violent revenge.
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It seems that the only recourse a sufferer now has is to appeal to the landlord.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But government and foundation grants are only a temporary recourse .
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If it is not, however, Hardy has little legal recourse .
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If the top leaders fail, there's no safety net, no recourse .
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She made a complete recovery without recourse to surgery and is reported elsewhere.
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That recourse is the U. S. Army.
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That need is most frequently satisfied by recourse to a nut or three.
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The aim is to use the rubble in as accurate a way as possible, avoiding recourse to modern materials.
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We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment.