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recurso — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • aid verb To help or support someone, or to make something easier.
  • appeal noun A formal request to a higher court to review and change a lower court's decision.
  • asset noun Something valuable that a person, company, or country owns or controls.
  • challenge noun A task or situation that tests someone's abilities in a demanding but often rewarding way.
  • mean verb To intend or have in mind as a purpose.
  • recourse noun An option to turn to for help, especially when other options have failed.
  • remedy noun Something that fixes a problem or relieves an unwanted condition.
  • resort noun A place people visit for a holiday, often with hotels, entertainment, and leisure facilities.
  • resource noun Something available to be used to achieve a goal, such as materials, money, or people.
  • writ noun A formal written order from a court instructing someone to do or stop doing something.

Senses

recurso is used for these senses in English:

  • aid (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
  • appeal An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
  • appeal (rhetoric) A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
  • asset (software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
  • challenge The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
  • mean Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium. [from 14th c.]
  • mean (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms.[from 15th c.]
  • remedy (legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.

aid — full definition

  1. verb To help or support someone, or to make something easier.
  2. noun Help, support, or resources given to someone in need.

appeal — full definition

  1. noun A formal request to a higher court to review and change a lower court's decision.
  2. noun A serious or urgent request for help, support, or something desired.
  3. noun The quality of being attractive or interesting.
  4. verb To formally request that a higher court review a decision.
  5. verb To be attractive or interesting to someone.

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