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4 4.5
To give a person or group the money, tools and help they need to do a job
  • verb
  • /ˈriːsɔːrs/
  • Jargon
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  • Delivering placements with practice nurses for nursing students is limited, too, by the need to resource these placements financially.
  • under-resourced
  • well-resourced
  • resourced school

I could resource that company with people in two weeks.

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Examples

  • The organization plans to resource the team's new project with additional funding and staff.

  • He will resource the initiative by arranging the necessary tools and personnel for success.

  • I could resource that company with people in two weeks.

  • The networks are essential elements of group efforts to finance and resource their expensive activities.

    Academic text (2010)
  • So that basket funding means you can get the funding to resource your priorities based on your need.

  • For the first time in many years, their work appeared to be needed, valued, and resourced.

    Academic text (2014)
  • I would like to seek a meeting with you to identify how this challenging project might be initiated and resourced.

  • The existing psychiatric facilities should be resourced with infrastructure, modern equipment, and logistics to effectively provide mental health services.

    Academic text (2018)
  • To achieve the project goals, they will resource the volunteers with training and support.

Synonyms

to support
vsto resource
753 1.4

Give money or other help so a person can live and study

provides a wider range including people and materials, not only money or aid
to provision
vsto resource
1 4.0

To supply someone with food or other needed items

includes supplying people and other nonphysical help as well as items
to resourcing
vsto resource
  • Jargon
4.4

To give people, money, or equipment to a project

provides people, materials, or help directly rather than only arranging them

Antonyms

119 5.1

To block a path or view

75 3.6

To make it difficult for people or things to do something

Compounds

natural resource
  • Specialized
8 3.0

A material found in nature that people use, like water or oil

A natural thing like trees or sunlight that comes back over time

Something you can use to meet a need, like food or equipment

Money that is available to spend or invest

go-to resource
  • Informal
1 4.0

A place, website, or person you often use for trusted information

A calm strength inside a person that helps them in hard times

1 3.8

An address you type or click to open a page on the internet

Money or possessions you can use to pay for things

A web address you type into a browser to open a page or file

How Supplied

to equip
276 3.2
to resource
  • Jargon
4 4.5
to supply
400 1.6
to neglect
256 3.8

Surface Forms

resource infinitive
resourced past
resourced past participle
resourcing present participle
resources third person singular

Etymology

The verb resource means to give a person or project the supplies or help they need, because to 'resource' something is to provide a source of support. So to resource a team is to give it the money, people, or tools it needs.