resource

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsɔːs/, /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, /ˈɹiːsɔːs/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɹisɔɹs/, /ɹɪˈzɔɹs/, /ɹɪˈsɔɹs/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɹi(ː)so(ː)ɹs/, /ɹɪˈzo(ː)ɹs/, /ɹɪˈso(ː)ɹs/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsoəs/, /ɹɪˈzoəs/, /ˈɹiːsoəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s

resource (plural resources)

1. Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
   • 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:

     Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, […] . This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet.

2. A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.

   a man/woman of resource

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.

• source

• means

• resource in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resource in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

resource (third-person singular simple present resources, present participle resourcing, simple past and past participle resourced)

1. To supply with resources.
   • 1999, Keith Ballard, Inclusive Education‎, →ISBN, page 160:

     All children receive it and, for the most part, do so in institutions that are approved by the state and, to a greater or lesser extent, resourced by the state.

• recourse

From the past participle of the verb resourdre, itself from Latin resurgō.

resource f (oblique plural resources, nominative singular resource, nominative plural resources)

1. act of raising

• English: resource (borrowed)
• French: ressource