last resort

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The only remaining, often least desirable, option when all others have been excluded.

En-au-last resort.ogg

last resort last resorts

last refuge

desperate times call for desperate measures in extremis last-ditch last gasp last stand

court of last resort drug of last resort lender of last resort

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