N-UNCOUNT
依靠;求援;訴諸
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.
例句
It enabled its members to settle their differences without recourse to war...
這樣，其成員就可以不必訴諸戰(zhàn)爭來解決分歧。
The public believes its only recourse is to take to the streets.
公眾認(rèn)為唯一的辦法就是上街游行。