1usually resourcesA stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.

1. 1.1resourcesA country's collective means of supporting itself or becoming wealthier, as represented by its reserves of minerals, land, and other natural assets.
   ‘Japan's exploitation of commercially important marine resources’
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   • ‘Significantly, the decision means that native title holders do not own the petroleum or mineral resources on their traditional lands.’
   • ‘Land and mineral resources are owned by the state, which decides to whom the right to use land is given for different purposes.’
   • ‘They invested in trade, in government loans, in the mineral resources of their land, as well as in improved farming and in renting out farming land.’
   • ‘Could native title rights extend to ownership of mineral resources beneath land and waters?’
   • ‘The surveys were established with a narrow mandate to support mineral and energy resources.’
   • ‘‘There are massive opportunities in mineral resources in the far east,’ he said.’
   • ‘He ended up leaving in frustration, because his village was poor and had no natural or economic resources.’
   • ‘Alaska has a fund through which the state distributes the economic rewards of its ownership of land and mineral resources.’
   • ‘The planet has limited natural resources, mineral resources and so forth.’
   • ‘Those resources might be land or industry or mineral wealth or the environment.’
   • ‘This is about life, and the land and resources that support our existence and well-being.’
   • ‘So far we have been fighting for land, water, minerals and other resources.’
   • ‘Highly favorable terms will be offered on land and mineral resources use.’
   • ‘Palm oil production, fish, and now black gold and natural gas are major resources, as is education.’
   • ‘For many countries, especially in the developing world, marine resources represent a great asset.’
   • ‘Once again the government wanted an official investigation of the mineral resources of the north.’
   • ‘The largest problems they face now are lack of adequate funds to maintain proper care of their animals and dwindling land resources.’
   • ‘Membership would lower the island's high food prices, but it might reduce local control over land and sea resources.’
   • ‘Africa, though endowed with a wealth of minerals and other resources, is the poorest continent in the world.’
   • ‘This is apparent when one examines land claims by indigenous peoples as the claimed land is often rich in mineral resources.’
2. 1.2A source of help or information.
   ‘census records are an invaluable resource for the historian’
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   • ‘the database could be used as a reference and teaching resource’
   • ‘Be aware of it, but make sure when you leave, you know where the sources of information and resources are.’
   • ‘A refugee doctors' guide has proved an invaluable information resource to refugee doctors and agencies assisting them.’
   • ‘We are at the crossroads to position ourselves as the source and resource of relevant information, knowledge, and insight.’
   • ‘Let nobody ever say that the internet is not a valuable information resource.’
   • ‘They aim to leverage additional learning resources from non-government sources.’
   • ‘The site also provides a useful route into external information resources and references of interest.’
   • ‘Many people lack ready access to computer technologies and the Internet's information and communication resources.’
   • ‘Access to worldwide information resources is exhilarating and liberating.’
   • ‘This website carries news and information resources on the state of the arts in that country.’
   • ‘Feel free to contact me for information on resources to help you get organized.’
   • ‘It probably would, because it would centralize the resources and information involved in protecting the country.’
   • ‘Their main duties were to track resources, co-ordinate information and help to predict the fire's path.’
   • ‘Addressing these obstacles could lead to better patient care by improving clinically oriented information resources.’
   • ‘Schools, meanwhile, will get extra resources and information packs.’
   • ‘BMJ Learning offers online learning resources to help you with your appraisal and revalidation.’
   • ‘Additional information technology and information resources will be needed to monitor progress.’
   • ‘For information resources, another column looked at collections of ready-reference sources.’
   • ‘Most of our members are first time computer users and new to the Internet, so we try and provide lots of help and learning resources online.’
   • ‘By sharing information and resources across divisions we will be able to offer customers a wider choice of services.’
   • ‘We collected data on use of resources from two sources.’
   Synonyms

   facility, amenity, aid, help, service, support, solution

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3. 1.3resourcesNorth American Available assets.
   ‘This limits the resources available for investments in the country's deteriorated public infrastructure.’
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   • ‘A bankruptcy judge would divide the available resources among the creditors.’
   • ‘Thus the tax burden will be eased by up to 600 million leva, leaving considerable investment resources available to businesses.’
   • ‘This will become more important in future years as investment resources become less available.’
   • ‘It is essential for a company to assess its available resources.’

2An action or strategy which may be adopted in adverse circumstances.

1. 2.1resourcesPersonal attributes and capabilities regarded as able to help or sustain one in adverse circumstances.
   ‘we had been left very much to our own resources’
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   • ‘I don't have the personal emotional resources to be able to reply to these people, and I don't know what it is that I do or write that makes people turn to me.’
   • ‘Both the strength and resources of the people had been exhausted.’
   • ‘Another is the overall commitment of time and resources, both personal and financial.’
   • ‘OK, maybe one person in a million has the innate talent, resources and organizational skills to do it.’
   • ‘If I went back over my past in order to write this novel, it was also to ease a hidden pain and to augment my inner resources, to be able, later on, to write an even better work.’
   • ‘Too often, young people who are having social integration difficulties, and their families, are left to their own resources.’
   • ‘It's a perplexing artistic problem, and they don't have deep personal resources to tap.’
   • ‘They also identified the personal resources on which they drew to initiate and maintain the activity.’
   • ‘Left to their own resources, all they can hope to accomplish is crisis management.’
   • ‘The implication is that, left to their own resources, most mothers and fathers are unlikely to cope today.’
   • ‘I finally think that I may now have developed the insight and personal resources that I didn't have before that can help stop it coming back.’
   • ‘In homes where involvement with and supervision of children is poor, children are left to their own resources as soon as they are physically able.’
   • ‘It may be that these women had the least personal resources in being able to cope with and respond to the risk that had occurred.’
   • ‘Linda believes nurses must be sensitive, have good personal resources, including humour, and have grasped their own perspective on death and dying.’
   • ‘He admits that his coping skills and personal resources were stretched beyond their limits and he lashed out in a temper outburst.’
2. 2.2dated mass noun The ability to find clever ways to overcome difficulties; resourcefulness.
   ‘a man of resource’
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   • ‘It is not because of any limit in Divine resource and ability, for God has none.’
   • ‘It's a day to remember that keeping one half of humankind under life-long subjugation through unwritten laws and warped thinking is a waste of talent and human resource.’
   • ‘The book shows Washington not only as a man of resource, strength, and virtue, but also as a man with deeply held religious values.’
   • ‘He has already shown us that he is a man of resource. So why don't we have a quiet dinner, then go and see an opera?’
   Synonyms

   initiative, resourcefulness, enterprise, imagination, imaginativeness, ingenuity, inventiveness

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3. 2.3archaic mass noun The possibility of aid or assistance.
   ‘the flower of the French army was lost without resource’
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   • ‘The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.’
   • ‘From the stories represented in the memory-cloth project, we learn about the uneducated and underrepresented, left without resource or recourse.’
   • ‘Delivered into the world, full grown and without a guardian to teach him the ways of the human world, the creation discovers that he is alone, but not without resource.’
   • ‘This surprising but logical move, defending the key pawn, leaves White utterly without resource.’

3dated A leisure occupation.

Provide with resources.