resource ~ recourse
natural resources
“Resource” (noun; for the right pronunciation, please click here) is ‘something such as water, land, minerals (natural resources) a country or a place has; all the money, people, skill, etc. one has in stock to use them when one needs; (of a person) the courage, determination, quick-thinking, etc. that one has and can use when needed; books, pictures, films, etc. that that teachers need to make the pupils understand the lesson well’,
e.g.
Oil and natural gas are the most important natural resources of our country.
My secretary is a person of great resource. She finds a solution for any problem.
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two people having recourse to law
“Recourse” (noun & adjective; for the right pronunciation, please click here) is ‘the act of doing something to get something else; something that one does to get something else or to get out or deal with a situation’,
e.g.
The patient has recourse to drugs to ease his pains. [i.e. to ease his pains he took medicine]
Both parties solved their disputes without recourse to the court of law. [i.e. the people involved in a disagreement solved their problem without going to the court of law]
