Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
RECOURSE
recourse, resort, refuge
(noun) act of turning to for assistance; “have recourse to the courts”; “an appeal to his uncle was his last resort”
recourse, refuge, resort
(noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security; “his only recourse was the police”; “took refuge in lying”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
recourse (countable and uncountable, plural recourses)
The act of seeking assistance or advice.
(obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
(obsolete) Access; admittance.
Verb
recourse (third-person singular simple present recourses, present participle recoursing, simple past and past participle recoursed)
(obsolete) To return; to recur.
(obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
Synonyms
• (to recur): repeat; see also repeat
Anagrams
• resource
Source: Wiktionary
Re*course" (r*krs"), n. Etym: [F. recours, L. recursus a running back, return, fr. recurrere, recursum, to run back. See Recur.]
1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] "Swift recourse of flushing blood." Spenser. Unto my first I will have my recourse. Chaucer. Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary. Sir T. Browne.
2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort. Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him. Sir H. Wotton. Our last recourse is therefore to our art. Dryden.
3. Access; admittance. [Obs.] Give me recourse to him. Shak. Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.
Re*course", v. i.
1. To return; to recur. [Obs.] The flame departing and recoursing. Foxe.
2. To have recourse; to resort. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
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