1. The action or procedure of going to someone or using something for help or safety: Going to his elderly aunt was Terry's last recourse for getting financial support so he could go to the university.
2. Someone who is available for help or safety: The governor will be the final recourse to getting the legislation passed for better roads.
3. The right by law to claim payment from an endorser when the person who is liable can't pay: Janet had a recourse to a lawyer who said he could get her payment refunded.