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resorter (plural resorters)

1. One who resorts, or has recourse (to something)
   • 1958, Phœnix (pseud.), His Holiness, page 187:

     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 .

   • 2006, Joseph Roisman, The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens, page 67:

     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.

   • 2023, Johanna Luthman, Family and Feuding at the Court of James I, page 211:

     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.

2. A frequenter.
   • 1992, Philip Ernest Tennant, Edgehill and Beyond, page 235:

     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.

   • 2001, M. Healy, Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England, page 182:

     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.

   • 2019, Lynsey McCulloch, ‎Brandon Shaw, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, page 34:

     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.”

3. One who travels somewhere for recreation; a tourist or holidayer.
   • 1933, William Henry Phelps, Ye Lakes and Hills of Michigan "We're with You Once Again", page 18:

     […] 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.

   • 1952, Clare A. Gunn, A Study of Changes in Buildings for Tourists and Resorters in Michigan, page 83:

     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.

   • 1999, Orvar Löfgren, On Holiday: A History of Vacationing, page 142:

     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:

4. A person who runs a resort
   • 1950, Victor H. Lanning ·, The Wisconsin Tourist, page 7:

     When all has been said and done, the crucial problem of the resorter is to attract the tourist to his particular resort .

   • 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:

     A resorter cannot continually maintain and update his facilities when interest rates eat up any and all the net the improvement would realize.

   • 1985, Gary Edward Ballman, ‎Larry Simonson, Managing Small Resorts for Profit, page 3:

     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.

5. (law) 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.
   • 2010, John Hamilton Baker, Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History, page 52:

     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.

6. Some or something that sorts previously sorted items.
   • 1965, North Carolina State University. Department of Agricultural Economics, A.E. Information Series - Issues 121-129, page 10:

     Unsalable fruit (over 20 percent of that reaching the resorter) is hauled away and dumped.

   • 2005, Margaret Masterman, ‎Yorick Wilks, Language, Cohesion and Form, page 191:

     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.

   • 2017, Denise Thursfield, Post-Fordism and Skill: Theories and Perceptions:

     If a pallet is found to contain a defective product it is broken down and checked again by resorters.

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