I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beach resort
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This is one of the most popular beach resorts in Greece.
a fashionable resort/area/address etc
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He runs a fashionable restaurant near the Harbor.
a holiday resort (= a place with many hotels where a lot of people go on holiday )
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a holiday resort in Spain
resort to a tactic (= use a tactic because there is no other way to do something )
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Students resort to these tactics when they see no other way to address the problem.
resort to/use violence
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They were willing to resort to violence to achieve their ends.
seaside town/resort
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the popular seaside resort of Brighton
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
coastal
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Thus the mixture of people in the coastal resorts is different from that in the industrial towns.
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This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts .
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Some of the inland villages stood still in time and were quiet and peaceful respites from the glamour of the coastal resorts .
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In the worst-case scenario, coastal resorts , ports and communities face disaster or vast expenditure on coastal protection works.
fashionable
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Down Niddry Street stands the charming concert hall which was a fashionable resort in the eighteenth century.
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Darjeeling was a fashionable hill resort .
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From the fashionable Muskoka resorts of the 1920s to white water enthusiasts on the Ottawa River today.
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For a brief time, this nook of County Durham was quite a fashionable holiday resort among the health-conscious.
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Smaller stations, however, like that at the fashionable resort of Hua Hin, adopted a local multi-roofed pagoda style.
final
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As a final resort , ask your class teachers whether they have a spare copy to lend you.
last
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He can't afford to pay for a private nursing facility, and the County Home is a last resort .
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If your sleep apnea is not relieved by these devices, surgery may be suggested as a last resort .
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As a last resort they can take late-payers to the small claims court.
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort .
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It is, at best, a last resort .
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Only as a last resort does he employ them.
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Sooner or later some country will refuse to practice the prescribed domestic austerity necessary to satisfy the international lenders of last resort .
lively
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It's a lively and cosmopolitan resort , which as well as being scenic, offers enormous potential to the sports enthusiast.
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Known for its high-spirited festivals and the local weaving trade, this lively resort has many restaurants and street stalls.
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Puerto del Carmen A modern and lively resort with plenty of bars, cafés and boutiques to browse through.
popular
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Kirchberg One of the most popular resorts in this brochure, and it's not hard to see why.
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In summertime trains run as often as every ten minutes taking holiday-makers through to the popular resort .
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The popular sea-side resort of Brighton is 40 minutes away.
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Two traditionally popular resorts in the area are Bernkastel and Cochem.
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The popular seaside resort of Brighton with its flamboyant Royal Pavilion is 8 miles away.
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It is a very popular summer resort , with sea-water swimming pools in the rocks.
small
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Finikounda A new small specialist resort for windsurfers only, satisfactory for novices and ideal for intermediates.
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This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts .
■ NOUN
area
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Our resort areas are typical, but away from mass tourism.
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If you went to a resort area you could rent a KUHCHalayn instead of staying at an expensive hotel.
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There may therefore be substantial building work in the vicinity of your holiday accommodation or in the resort area generally.
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A timeshare development in a resort area needs to have sufficient facilities to attract visitors all the year round.
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Beardshaw and Morgan note the particular problem which letting for the holiday season creates in this popular resort area .
beach
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Days 10-15 Mombasa 5 days in the glorious beach resort of Mombasa in the hotel of your choice.
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El Salvador has only one major beach resort .
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Days 12-15 Mombasa At leisure in your beach resort .
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From a tough neighbourhood, they spend their first summer playing a rich beach resort club.
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We stayed in the relaxed beach resort on the east coast of the island called Kamari.
centre
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All are family run and stand in or very close to the resort centre .
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Set on the main road - 15 minutes walk from the resort centre , local buses stop nearby.
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The amenities of the resort centre are only a short walk away.
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The resort centre is 15 minutes walk away.
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It is also only a pleasant ten minutes walk from the resort centre of Sirmione.
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The resort centre is about half a mile away and it's only a 5 minute walk to the sandy beach.
holiday
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The suitcase might have signs on or pictures of a holiday resort to add effect.
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For a while, the plan worked splendidly and Cruden Bay was a smart holiday resort .
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Penzance, once a centre of smuggling, is now very much a holiday resort .
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Hastings began to try to get back to its pre-war holiday resort living.
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The hotel itself has 290 rooms in a tower block and is a complete holiday resort hotel.
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This is an all-round summer holiday resort with enough facilities to keep everybody happy.
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This town, is a bustling holiday resort with a large, busy harbour and a jam-packed beach.
hotel
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Following fast on its heels is Ko Samui, once a hippy paradise, now with several resort hotels .
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The target area was the coastal stretch between Alexandria and El Alamein, where resort hotels and luxury housing are developing.
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The hotel itself has 290 rooms in a tower block and is a complete holiday resort hotel.
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She concedes that her town was founded around a resort hotel .
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But now they have removed all the goodies, the resort hotel and golf course.
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Some employees of resort hotels are managers during the busy season and have other duties during the rest of the year.
mountain
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We last saw Kepesh, the son of Catskill Mountain resort operators, established in academia with one marriage behind him.
seaside
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On May 1st, all the players in the Yugoslav drama gathered at a seaside resort near Athens.
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Once each year George and Doris secretly meet in a quaint seaside resort , rekindling what has become a 25-year fling.
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The house is situated in the seaside resort of St. Anne's-on-Sea in Lancashire and is only a short walk from the beach.
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And at 3: 43, the place began looking like some seaside resort during an East Coast hurricane.
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From the top you could see right over the seaside resort out into the countryside beyond.
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For 51 weeks of the year there's nothing particularly funny about the Sussex seaside resort of Bognor Regis.
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The popular seaside resort of Brighton with its flamboyant Royal Pavilion is 8 miles away.
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Llandudno, a Victorian seaside resort .
ski
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For lodging information, begin by calling the ski resort of your choice.
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Of course, we must not forget that these are ski resorts .
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The artery, which links ski resorts and casinos to the rest of Northern California, was reopened Jan. 17.
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Sadly, unscrupulous ski resorts might misuse the new polymer, surreptitiously dusting it on the slopes of their rivals.
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She reportedly works at a local ski resort and keeps a few horses.
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Father was a mountaineer; he made his fortune from the ski resorts on a mountain Grandfather had bought cheaply in Colorado.
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At most ski resorts , large and small, there has been a sharper focus on day-care facilities and staff.
tourist
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The first cover story for the airstrip was that a group of businessmen wanted to start up a tourist resort there.
town
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Mentioning their names, how may you describe the hierarchy of resort towns ?
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Pegwell Bay, pleasure-beach adjacent to the resort town of Ramsgate, Kent.
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Shanklin, resort town on the Isle of Wight, scene of the Lammles' honeymoon.
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Mundesley in Norfolk was intended to be a new resort town in 1900 but never succeeded.
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Wolverton and Eastleigh have been discussed earlier. other resort towns came in the nineteenth century.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Acapulco is one of Mexico's most popular resorts.
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Lift tickets at most ski resorts are about $30 to $40 a day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there is a real danger that lucky resorts will be fully booked within hours of a good dump.
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In buildings of more than two storeys, wait for the fire brigade, and jump only as a last resort .
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It does not deal directly with possession of weapons, nor with the legitimacy of resort to war in the first place.
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Residential care should not be used as a last resort .
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That Government were able to carry through virtually all that legislation with hardly any resort to guillotine motions.
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This was not the resort of my dreams.
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We were joined there by George and Marion and we all went off to a skiing resort called Gargellen.
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When they run out of established holidays, resorts just make up their own.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
to
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By the twentieth edition synthesis had become a well-established mechanism for allowing detailed specification without resorting to exceedingly lengthy schedules.
■ NOUN
tactic
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So they had to resort to indirect tactics .
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Merrill felt that students resort to these tactics when they see no other way to address the problem.
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The Kremlin has consistently opposed their return, invoking security problems and resorting to delaying tactics .
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But Sunday afternoon, the demonstrators regained possession of the streets by resorting to their new tactic of creating gigantic traffic jams.
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Why should women resort to such devious tactics ?
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With no help around, you may have to resort to another tactic - a risky one: going to ground.
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By turning to the Falangist component of the regime forces in this way, Franco was resorting to an old tactic .
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If all this fails, you may have to resort to another tactic .
violence
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How can we deal with bullying without resorting to violence ourselves?
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Socrates finds satisfying, gut-wrenching answers to these and other universal questions without resorting to violence or to 911.
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There was evidence that passers-by were annoyed, and were on the verge of resorting to violence when the police intervened.
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Officials fear extremists on both sides may resort to violence to try to derail the redeployment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Coelenterates will resort to territorial squabbles in the aquarium just as they do in the wild.
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He thinks some states and cities will resort to pump-priming their economies with spending on things like roads, airports and waste-management.
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In 1981 the government had to resort to crash purchases of kerosene to meet shortages.
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Merrill felt that students resort to these tactics when they see no other way to address the problem.
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People become so desperate to make contact with beasts and fowl that they resort to going on nature trails.
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Socrates finds satisfying, gut-wrenching answers to these and other universal questions without resorting to violence or to 911.
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With high demand and continuing short supply, Schofield said vintners are resorting to other measures.