resource

[O. Fr. resource (Fr. res source ).] [SOURCE.] 1. Any source of aid, help, support, or safety; a resort; an expedient to which a person may resort for aid or safety; that on which one depends for safety or support. "The ministers had, it should seem, miscalculated their military resources."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. 2. ( Pl .): Money, funds; pecuniary means; means of raising money or supplies; anything by means of which money or supplies can be raised. rě-söurçe -fül, a . [Eng. resource ; -ful ( 1 ) .] Full of resources, expedients, or contrivances; clever in finding out resources. "Birds are so resourceful that their actions are too commonly interpreted as proceeding from choice." - St. James' Gazette, March 18, 1886.