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resorter en · NOUN

Etymology

From resort + -er.

Meanings

1. One who resorts, or has recourse (to something)
   • In Aristophanes' Wasps, Cleon loses his role as a frequent resorter to charges of conspiracy to elderly jurors, described as his ardent followers and fans, as well as to ordinary Athenians. 2006, Joseph Roisman, The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens, page 67:
   • He is a frequent resorter to medicinal aids and appliance to combat old age and infirmity , but it is always God Who prescribes for him . 1958, Phœnix (pseud.), His Holiness, page 187:
   • He was a "frequent resorter” to John Digby, now Lord Digby, Privy Councilor and the person the king relied on for the Spanish marriage negotiations. 2023, Johanna Luthman, Family and Feuding at the Court of James I, page 211:
2. A frequenter.
   • Furthermore, the brothel's mistress is 'bound' to this governor (60); by implication, Lysimachus is a regular 'resorter', all too familiar with the iniquitous business in hand. 2001, M. Healy, Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England, page 182:
   • One of Katherine's neighbors called her "a lewd and idle housewife, a common resorter to alehouses & other places where dancing is both by day and by night.” 2019, Lynsey McCulloch, Brandon Shaw, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, page 34:
   • As 'a common resorter to the houses of Popish recusants and a scoffer of goodness and good men' [i.e. Puritans] he could expect no less from the parliamentary authorities. 1992, Philip Ernest Tennant, Edgehill and Beyond, page 235:
3. One who travels somewhere for recreation; a tourist or holidayer.
   • […] for this land of the north, outside of a few centers, has hardly been touched by the resorters, so vast are the uncamped and uncottaged stretches. 1933, William Henry Phelps, Ye Lakes and Hills of Michigan "We're with You Once Again", page 18:
   • He describes the summer resorter as being one of the following kinds: a "roughing-it" or back-to-nature resorter; a rest-seeking resorter; a student resorter, much as those attending Bay View or Interlocken; and a fashionable resorter. 1952, Clare A. Gunn, A Study of Changes in Buildings for Tourists and Resorters in Michigan, page 83:
   • A favorite Maine story tells of the resorter on the road from Bangor to Bar Harbor who stops his car and asks a local if this is the right way: 1999, Orvar Löfgren, On Holiday: A History of Vacationing, page 142:
4. A person who runs a resort
   • A resorter cannot continually maintain and update his facilities when interest rates eat up any and all the net the improvement would realize. 1974, United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Environmental Problems Affecting Small Business, Small Business Opportunities in Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, page 324:
   • When all has been said and done, the crucial problem of the resorter is to attract the tourist to his particular resort . 1950, Victor H. Lanning ·, The Wisconsin Tourist, page 7:
   • On the other side of the coin is the resorter who likes the lifestyle so much that he fishes all day, becomes oblivious to the piles of trash around the resort, and ignores the needs of his guests. 1985, Gary Edward Ballman, Larry Simonson, Managing Small Resorts for Profit, page 3:
5. The process by which property that was previously transferred or granted to a new owner reverts or is reclaimed by the original owner or that person's heirs.
   • And even if the reversion is understood in such a case to be the donor and his heirs, a resorter to a stranger ought not to be understood so widely. 2010, John Hamilton Baker, Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History, page 52:
6. Some or something that sorts previously sorted items.
   • The rules of the system, then, as they appear to the artist, will differ from the rules of the system as they appear to the sorter or resorter; the two will deal in differing units. 2005, Margaret Masterman, Yorick Wilks, Language, Cohesion and Form, page 191:
   • Unsalable fruit (over 20 percent of that reaching the resorter) is hauled away and dumped. 1965, North Carolina State University. Department of Agricultural Economics, A.E. Information Series - Issues 121-129, page 10:
   • If a pallet is found to contain a defective product it is broken down and checked again by resorters. 2017, Denise Thursfield, Post-Fordism and Skill: Theories and Perceptions:

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