resort
I
verb
administer, adopt, apply, avail oneself of, bring into play, call forth, employ, enlist, exercise, fall back upon, have recourse, look to, make use of, practice, press into service, put to use, try, turn to for help, turn to for support, use, utilize
II
index
device (contrivance), expedient, refuge, resource, stopgap
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006