resorts

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of resort.

   Coastal resorts along the bay attract thousands of tourists each season.

   The company operates several luxury resorts in the mountains.

   Note

   The plural belongs mostly to places, such as coastal resorts and mountain resorts. It also names the resorts into which Suriname's districts are divided, an administrative unit that only makes sense as a countable noun. The older meaning of recourse or refuge tends to stay singular, so a plural reader will almost always take resorts to mean destinations.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of resort.

   Whenever negotiations stall, the union resorts to legal action.

   Under real pressure, he resorts to the same old habits.

   Note

   Here the verb almost always takes to plus the measure adopted: someone resorts to legal action, or resorts to old habits. In modern use it often implies necessity or frustration, as if better options had run out. Where the meaning is sorting things again, the hyphenated re-sorts is preferred, which keeps that verb visibly apart from this one in print.

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