: able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means
- a resourceful leader
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Desna is a complex character, smart and resourceful.
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The Warriors are absurdly talented, but even more resourceful; between Green, Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston, and even Durant (who finished with seven assists), Golden State has the facilitation to work over even impeccable defense.
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Not much is known about what happened to this resourceful woman once slavery was abolished.
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Amid the chaos and confusion, the statements — given in the days and weeks after the Oct. 1 massacre — recounted acts of heroism and resourceful quick-thinking.
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The book has several unassuming heroes: a young widow and a resourceful sociologist in Kathmandu, and legislators and tireless pro-bono lawyers in Washington.
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The president wants to see North Korea fulfill its potential, as a -- as an -- as a member of the community of nations, as a nation filled with resourceful, smart people who have suffered enormously under that ideology, and under that system.
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When the Germans occupied Poland, Raizel was conscripted to work, but Sala, shrewd and resourceful, felt her older sister was too bookish to weather the camp and volunteered to take her place.
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Do Lab’s effortless ethos doesn’t come without ruffling a few feathers though, but that’s Do Lab’s ultimate strength: embodying the resourceful, underground spirit of electronic culture even in the face of corporatization.
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First Known Use of resourceful
1851
RESOURCEFUL Defined for English Language Learners
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: able to deal well with new or difficult situations and to find solutions to problems
RESOURCEFUL Defined for Kids
: clever in dealing with problems
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