N-UNCOUNT 依靠;求援;诉诸 If you achieve something without recourse to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have recourse to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something. 依靠;求援;诉诸 [formal]
It enabled its members to settle their differences without recourse to war. [+ to]
这样,其成员就可以不必诉诸战争来解决分歧。
The public believes its only recourse is to take to the streets.