resource

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /ɹɪˈzɔɚs/, SAMPA: /rI"zO@`s/

  Audio (CA)

  (file)

• (UK) IPA: /ɹɪˈzɔː(ɹ)s/, /ˈɹi.sɔː(ɹ)s/, SAMPA: /rI"zO:(r)s/, /"ri.sO:(r)s/

  Rhymes: -ɔː(r)s

• (US) IPA: /ˈɹisɔɚs/, /ɹɪˈzɔɚs/, SAMPA: /"risO`s/

  Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

resource (plural resources)

1. Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
2. A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.

   a man/woman of resource

Derived terms

• resourceful
• human resources
• natural resource
• renewable resource
• subresource

Related terms

• source

See also

• means

Translations

something that one uses to achieve an objective

Chinese: Mandarin: 資源 (cmn), 资源 (cmn) (zīyuán) Czech: zdroj (cs) m. Danish: resurse (da) c., ressource (da) c. Dutch: bron (nl) c., hulpbron (nl) c., faciliteit (nl) f., hulpmiddel (nl) n., ressource (nl) c. Esperanto: resurso (eo) Finnish: voimavara (fi), resurssi (fi) French: ressource (fr) f. German: Ressource (de) f., Mittel (de) n.

Italian: risorsa (it) Japanese: (materials) 資源 (ja) (しげん, shigen); (valuables) 資産 (ja) (しさん, shisan); (source) 供給源 (ja) (きょうきゅうげん, kyōkyūgen) Korean: 자원 (ko) (jaweon) (資源 (ko)) Russian: ресурс (ru) (resúrs) m., запас (ru) (zapás) m., средство (ru) (srédstvo) n. Scottish Gaelic: goireas (gd) m. Serbian: средство (sr) (sredstvo) m., ресурс (sr) (resurs) m. Slovene: sredstvo (sl) n. Spanish: recurso (es) m., medio (es) m. Swahili: raslimali (sw)

personal capacity

Danish: resurse (da) c., ressource (da) c. Dutch: middel, middelen Finnish: voimavara (fi) Italian: risorsa (it) f.

Japanese: 資質 (ja) (ししつ, shishitsu) Russian: находчивость (ru) (naxódčivost') f., изобретательность (ru) (izobr'etát'el'nost') f. Swahili: raslimali (sw)

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Arabic: مصدر (máʂɖar) m. Catalan: mitjà (ca) f., remei (ca) m. German: Hilfsmittel n., Ressource f. Hebrew: משאב (mashav)

Portuguese: recurso m. Romanian: resursă f. Spanish: recurso m. Swedish: resurs

References

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

Verb

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^[1], ISBN 0750709340, 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.

Translations

To supply with resources

Italian: fornire (it), dotare (it)

Anagrams

• recourse