A resort is a place where people go to relax or take a vacation. As a verb, to resort to something means to use it as a final or last option, often because other choices have failed.
From Old French *resortir* 'to go out again, return', from *re-* 'again' + *sortir* 'to go out'. The noun sense grew from the idea of a place people repeatedly go back to.
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