Portuguese English Dictionary

português - English

recurso in English:

1. resource


I use the Internet as a resource for my research.
A library is the best resource for books.
natural resource
Water law is the field of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource.
Wood is a disappearing resource in much of Africa, and these stoves burn far less wood than the stoves currently in much use.
Corpora provide a rich resource for investigating language.
They had no other resource but to apologize.
Were we to populate the corpus with unnatural sentences or inaccurate translations, this resource wouldn't be of much use, now would it?
Water is a natural resource of vital importance.
The one resource more precious than any other was land.
a great resource of teaching materials; financial resources; natural resources
She has shown considerable resource in creating the new team.
Positiveness is a great resource for energy.
The internet is a fantastic information resource for students.
This is international common sense, the great principle of resource management.

2. appeal


Yes, I think you have to be a little bit obsessive to collect every single sticker but I can see the appeal.
emotional appeal
The girl made an appeal for help in search for her dog. 2. The Prime Minister appealed to young people to use their vote. 3. desire to phone family and appeal to them to pull you out of the state
It's not only the health aspects of sports that appeal to people, but the cooperative aspect that team sports teach, and the competitive aspect in itself.
Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility.
It may not appeal to some, but I prefer to remain a salaried man; I don't have to worry so much about making both ends meet.
why do you think the stories of Robin Hood have lasted from the Middle Ages through to the modern day? I suppose it's got appeal on lots of levels – action, adventure – there's some comedy stuff there with the merry men.
/əˈpiːl/ It's a ​programme ​designed to appeal ​mainly to 16 to 25-year-olds. I ​think what appeals to me about his ​painting is his use of ​colour. UK I haven't been ​skiing - it's never really appealed.
An appeal from a notice of termination of employment shall be submitted to a labour court within 7 days.
What sort of sporting events have word wide appeal? Who do you usually appeal when you need help desperately?
Jones has been released on bail pending an appeal (=until there is an appeal).
And I'm slowly coming to understand that the appeal of what I do may be connected to why I do it.
Friends, prepare yourselves... for the unbearably soft appeal of chinchilla.
Definition if something appeals to you, you think it is interesting and want to know more about it or get more involved in it
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

3. recourse


We should consider a recourse for help to the police.
Poetry for his generation was a recourse against rhetoric
The risk was great, but they had no other recourse.
It's happening, the recourse to market mechanisms and market thinking and market solutions, in bigger arenas.
"his only recourse was the police"; "have recourse to the courts"
We face uncertainties like not knowing who we're dealing with, not having visibility into a transaction and not having recourse if things go wrong.
the recourse to the derogation of Article 49 should never lead to the situation where fundamental rights may be breached.
... the rules relating to recourse to and the conduct...