RESOURCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resource mean? 

• RESOURCE (noun)
  The noun RESOURCE has 3 senses:

1. available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed

2. a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed

3. the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

  Familiarity information: RESOURCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESOURCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("resource" is a kind of...):

assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resource"):

natural resource; natural resources (resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature)

labor resources (resources of available manpower)

bread and butter; keep; livelihood; living; support; sustenance (the financial means whereby one lives)

backing; financial backing; financial support; funding; support (financial resources provided to make some project possible)

ways and means (resources available to meet expenses (especially legislation for raising revenue for a government))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the local library is a valuable resource

Hypernyms ("resource" is a kind of...):

asset; plus (a useful or valuable quality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resource"):

aid; assistance; help (a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do)

recourse; refuge; resort (something or someone turned to for assistance or security)

resourcefulness (the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation)

inner resource (a resource provided by the mind or one's personal capabilities)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

imagination; resource; resourcefulness

Context example:

a man of resource

Hypernyms ("resource" is a kind of...):

cleverness; ingeniousness; ingenuity; inventiveness (the power of creative imagination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resource"):

armory; armoury; inventory (a collection of resources)

 Context examples 

“I am aware that what you say is true about the lady’s resources,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have worked things in such a fashion that we have only one resource left.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All living things exist in communities, where they depend on resources or services provided by other species.

(Colorful bird feathers offer evolutionary clues, National Science Foundation)

There must have been several in it, and they must have been men of resource and determination.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When that fail he make straight for his last resource—his last earth-work I might say did I wish double entente.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Amy fared worst of all, for her resources were small, and when her sisters left her to amuse herself, she soon found that accomplished and important little self a great burden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources or the difficulties of my life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This atlas is a critical resource for the scientific community interested in how individual genomic variation leads to biological differences, like healthy and diseased states, across human tissues and cell types.

(NIH completes atlas of human DNA differences that influence gene expression, National Institutes of Health)

But against this there were objections; and she finally resolved that it could be the last resource, if her private inquiries to the absence of the family were unfavourably answered.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

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