resorter

Noun

resorter (plural resorters)

1. One who resorts, or has recourse (to something)
   • 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 .1958, Phœnix (pseud.), His Holiness, page 187
   • 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.2006, Joseph Roisman, The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens, page 67
2. A frequenter.
   • 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.1992, Philip Ernest Tennant, Edgehill and Beyond, page 235
   • 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.2001, M. Healy, Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England, page 182
3. One who travels somewhere for recreation; a tourist or holidayer.
   • […] 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.1933, William Henry Phelps, Ye Lakes and Hills of Michigan "We're with You Once Again", page 18
   • 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.1952, Clare A. Gunn, A Study of Changes in Buildings for Tourists and Resorters in Michigan, page 83
4. A person who runs a resort
   • When all has been said and done, the crucial problem of the resorter is to attract the tourist to his particular resort .1950, Victor H. Lanning ·, The Wisconsin Tourist, page 7
   • A resorter cannot continually maintain and update his facilities when interest rates eat up any and all the net the improvement would realize.1974, United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Environmental Problems Affecting Small Business, Small Business Opportunities in Outdoor Recreation...
5. 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.
   • 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.2010, John Hamilton Baker, Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History, page 52
6. Some or something that sorts previously sorted items.
   • Unsalable fruit (over 20 percent of that reaching the resorter) is hauled away and dumped.1965, North Carolina State University. Department of Agricultural Economics, A.E. Information Series - Issues 121-129, page 10
   • 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.2005, Margaret Masterman, Yorick Wilks, Language, Cohesion and Form, page 191