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An example use of recourse in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… issuer not recourse to the projects in …”
Recourse means a last resort, a last resort is a course of action that is taken when all other options have been exhausted.
the word recourse occurs in english on average 1.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that recourse can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) communication, information, and media;