A course of action for enforcing a claim; the right of the holder of a note to demand full payment of that note if the terms are not fully honored; the right to be repaid from the borrower’s or cosigner’s personal assets in excess of the collateral.
A river of eastern Switzerland, western Austria, and southeast Germany flowing about 515 km (320 mi) northeastward to the Danube River. Its lower course forms part of the German-Austrian border.
A contract or financial instrument granting such a right:
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Stopgap
refers to a person or thing serving as a temporary substitute or expedient, to be replaced when the usual agent is available again he's just a stopgap until a new manager is appointed
Makeshift
applies to a quick expedient and, as a somewhat derogatory term, connotes an inferior substitute, carelessness, etc. we used a crate as a makeshift for a table
Expedient
refers to something used to effect a desired end, specif. to something used as a substitute for the usual means the daybed served as a useful expedient for unexpected guests
Resort
, qualified as by last, is usually used of a final resource toward which one turns for aid in time of need or emergency we'll take the bus as a last resort
Find another word for resort. In this page you can discover 65 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for resort, like: vacation spot, turn, run, hotel, surrogate, motel, makeshift, device, refuge, recourse and hope.
It's probably silly, but I was thinking that this land would be a good investment for a resort retreat.
At the southern end of the boulevard de la Republique is the square de la Republique, formerly the place Bresson, in which is the municipal theatre; at the other extremity of the boulevard is the place du Gouvernement, which is planted on three sides with a double row of plane trees and is the fashionable resort for evening promenade.
During the summer it is a place of considerable resort for the sake of its waters - saline, chalybeate and sulphur - and it possesses the usual accessories of pump-rooms, baths and a recreation ground.
Miss Franny would never resort to writing something like this.