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- resource
collapse - a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed; "the local library is a valuable resource"
- the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource"
- available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed related words >
- ability,
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- airmanship,
- answer,
- aptitude,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- assets,
- available means,
- backlog,
- balance,
- bonanza,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- cache,
- capability,
- capacity,
- capital,
- capital goods,
- capitalization,
- cash,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- contraption,
- contrivance,
- control,
- coordination,
- cornucopia,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- craft,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cunning,
- deftness,
- demarche,
- dernier ressort,
- device,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- dodge,
- efficiency,
- effort,
- expediency,
- expedient,
- expertise,
- facility,
- fashion,
- finesse,
- font,
- forte,
- fortune,
- fount,
- fountain,
- fund,
- funds,
- gimmick,
- gold mine,
- grace,
- grip,
- grist,
- gumption,
- guts,
- handiness,
- holdings,
- hope,
- horsemanship,
- imagination,
- imaginativeness,
- improvisation,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- initiative,
- invention,
- inventiveness,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- know-how,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- liquid assets,
- lode,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- manner,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- mean,
- means,
- measure,
- method,
- mine,
- mode,
- money,
- move,
- nest egg,
- opportunity,
- pis aller,
- possessions,
- possibility,
- practical ability,
- proficiency,
- property,
- prowess,
- quality,
- quarry,
- quick-wittedness,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- recourse,
- refuge,
- relief,
- reserve,
- reserve fund,
- reserve supply,
- reserves,
- reservoir,
- resort,
- resourcefulness,
- resources,
- riches,
- savings,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- sinking fund,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- solution,
- something in reserve,
- source,
- source of supply,
- spring,
- staple,
- step,
- stockpile,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strength,
- string,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- style,
- substance,
- substitute,
- subterfuge,
- supply,
- surrogate,
- system,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- tactic,
- talent,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- temporary expedient,
- timing,
- trick,
- trump,
- unexpended balance,
- vein,
- virtuosity,
- way,
- wealth,
- well,
- wellspring,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition,
- workmanship,
- worth
- aberrancy,
- aberrant,
- aberration,
- aberrative,
- bend,
- bias,
- branching off,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- departing,
- departure,
- desultory,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- digressive,
- discursion,
- discursive,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- errant,
- errantry,
- erratic,
- excursion,
- excursive,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- hairpin,
- indirect,
- indirection,
- labyrinthine,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- obliquity,
- out-of-the-way,
- pererration,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- roving,
- serpentine,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- skew,
- slant,
- snaky,
- stray,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swinging,
- tack,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- twisting,
- undirected,
- vagrant,
- variation,
- veer,
- veering,
- wandering,
- warp,
- winding,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- expedient
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- a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
- serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
- appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty" related words >
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- advantageous,
- advisable,
- agency,
- answer,
- applicable,
- appropriate,
- apropos,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- auspicious,
- banausic,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- behind-the-scenes influence,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- blind,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- chicanery,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- commodious,
- congruous,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- convenient,
- correct,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- decent,
- demarche,
- dernier ressort,
- design,
- desirable,
- device,
- devices,
- dodge,
- effective,
- effort,
- elegant,
- employable,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expediency,
- expedients,
- fair,
- fakement,
- famous,
- favorable,
- feasible,
- feint,
- felicitous,
- fetch,
- fine,
- fit,
- fitten,
- fitting,
- fortunate,
- fructuous,
- functional,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- going between,
- good,
- good for,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grift,
- happy,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- hope,
- improvisation,
- influence,
- instrument,
- instrumentality,
- intermediation,
- intrigue,
- judicious,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- kind,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- laudable,
- likely,
- little game,
- lucky,
- machination,
- machinery,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- maneuvers,
- manipulation,
- means,
- measure,
- mechanism,
- mediation,
- medium,
- meet,
- move,
- nice,
- noble,
- of general utility,
- of help,
- of service,
- of use,
- opportune,
- pertinent,
- pis aller,
- pleasant,
- plot,
- ploy,
- politic,
- political influence,
- possible,
- practicable,
- practical,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatical,
- profitable,
- proper,
- propitious,
- providential,
- prudent,
- racket,
- recommendable,
- recommended,
- recourse,
- red herring,
- refuge,
- regal,
- resort,
- resource,
- right,
- ripe,
- royal,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- seasonable,
- seemly,
- service,
- serviceable,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- skillful,
- sleight,
- solution,
- sortable,
- sound,
- splendid,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- substitute,
- subterfuge,
- suitable,
- tactic,
- tactical,
- tactical maneuvers,
- tactics,
- temporary expedient,
- timely,
- to be desired,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- useful,
- utilitarian,
- valid,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- well-timed,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wise,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition,
- worthwhile
- Wanderjahr,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- aside,
- bend,
- bias,
- branching off,
- bumming,
- bypath,
- byway,
- circuitousness,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- episode,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flitting,
- gadding,
- hairpin,
- hoboism,
- indirection,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- nomadism,
- obliquity,
- parenthesis,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rove,
- roving,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- slant,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- traipsing,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- vagrancy,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- wayfaring,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- ripen
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- grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"
- cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" related words >
- advance,
- age,
- alter into,
- attain majority,
- be converted into,
- bear fruit,
- beautify,
- become,
- better,
- bloom,
- blossom,
- blow,
- bring to maturity,
- change into,
- come of age,
- come round to,
- come to fruition,
- come to maturity,
- complete,
- crown,
- culminate,
- cultivate,
- develop,
- do to perfection,
- elaborate,
- embellish,
- enhance,
- evolute,
- evolve,
- evolve into,
- fall into,
- fester,
- finish,
- fledge,
- flourish,
- flower,
- grow,
- grow up,
- heighten,
- improve,
- intensify,
- lapse into,
- leave the nest,
- matter,
- maturate,
- mature,
- mellow,
- melt into,
- open into,
- pass into,
- perfect,
- polish,
- progress,
- rankle,
- reach its season,
- reach manhood,
- reach maturity,
- reach twenty-one,
- reach voting age,
- refine,
- ripe,
- ripen into,
- run,
- run into,
- season,
- settle down,
- settle into,
- shift into,
- suppurate,
- temper,
- toga virilis,
- turn into,
- turn to,
- wax,
- weep
- reconstruct
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- cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically
- reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago" related words >
- accommodate,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- better,
- break up,
- change,
- convert,
- copy,
- deform,
- denature,
- diversify,
- do over,
- do up,
- doctor,
- duplicate,
- fit,
- fix,
- improve,
- make over,
- meliorate,
- mitigate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mutate,
- overhaul,
- overthrow,
- patch,
- qualify,
- re-create,
- re-form,
- readjust,
- realign,
- rearrange,
- reassemble,
- rebuild,
- reclaim,
- recondition,
- reconstitute,
- recover,
- redesign,
- redo,
- reestablish,
- refabricate,
- refashion,
- refit,
- reform,
- refound,
- regenerate,
- rehabilitate,
- reinstitute,
- reissue,
- rejuvenate,
- remake,
- remodel,
- renew,
- renovate,
- reorder,
- reorganize,
- repair,
- repeat,
- reprint,
- reproduce,
- reshape,
- reshuffle,
- restitute,
- restore,
- restructure,
- resurrect,
- retool,
- revamp,
- revise,
- revive,
- ring the changes,
- shift the scene,
- shuffle the cards,
- subvert,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn the tide,
- turn upside down,
- vary,
- work a change,
- worsen
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