Usually means: Final option after all others.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word last resort:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. last resort: Merriam-Webster
  2. last resort: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. last resort: Collins English Dictionary
  4. last-resort, last resort: Wordnik
  5. last resort: Wiktionary
  6. Last resort, last resort: Dictionary.com
  7. Last Resort (House), Last Resort (TV series), Last Resort (U.S. TV series), Last Resort (disambiguation), Last Resort (song), Last Resort (video game), Last Resort, Last resort, The Last Resort (American TV series), The Last Resort (Doctor Who), The Last Resort (Eagles song), The Last Resort (album), The Last Resort: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. last resort: Rhymezone
  9. last resort: FreeDictionary.org
  10. last resort: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. last resort: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. last resort: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Last Resort: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Last resort: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. last resort: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See last_resorts as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (last resort)

noun:  (idiomatic) The only remaining, often least desirable, option when all others have been excluded.

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