Resource

Noun

 * 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

Verb

 * 1) To supply with resources

Thesaurus
ability, action, ad hoc measure, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, answer, aptitude, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistry, assets, available means, backlog, balance, bonanza, bravura, brilliance, cache, capability, capacity, capital, capital goods, capitalization, cash, cleverness, command, competence, contraption, contrivance, control, coordination, cornucopia, countermove, coup, course of action, craft, craftsmanship, creation, cunning, deftness, demarche, dernier ressort, device, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, dodge, efficiency, effort, expediency, expedient, expertise, facility, fashion, finesse, font, forte, fortune, fount, fountain, fund, funds, gimmick, gold mine, grace, grip, grist, gumption, guts, handiness, holdings, hope, horsemanship, imagination, imaginativeness, improvisation, ingeniousness, ingenuity, initiative, invention, inventiveness, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, know-how, last expedient, last resort, last shift, liquid assets, lode, makeshift, maneuver, manner, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mean, means, measure, method, mine, mode, money, move, nest egg, opportunity, pis aller, possessions, possibility, practical ability, proficiency, property, prowess, quality, quarry, quick-wittedness, quickness, readiness, recourse, refuge, relief, reserve, reserve fund, reserve supply, reserves, reservoir, resort, resourcefulness, resources, riches, savings, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, shake-up, shift, sinking fund, skill, skillfulness, solution, something in reserve, source, source of supply, spring, staple, step, stockpile, stopgap, stratagem, strength, string, stroke, stroke of policy, style, substance, substitute, subterfuge, supply, surrogate, system, tact, tactfulness, tactic, talent, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, temporary expedient, timing, trick, trump, unexpended balance, vein, virtuosity, way, wealth, well, wellspring, wit, wizardry, working hypothesis, working proposition, workmanship, worth

Etymology
Derived from resource: <  resourdre: <  resurgere:. See resourd, resurgent, source.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Ressource, Mittel


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ;  ;  供給源
 * Korean:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: recurso, medio
 * Swahili: raslimali


 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: middel, middelen
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 資質
 * Russian: находчивость, изобретательность
 * Swahili: raslimali


 * : mitjà,
 * : Hilfsmittel, Ressource
 * : משאב (mashav)
 * : משאב (mashav)


 * : recurso
 * : resursă
 * : recurso
 * : resurs

Verb

 * Italian: ,

Anagrams

 * recourse