recourse (n.)

• ability
• access
• admittance
• agency
• alternative
• availability
• backup
• capacity
• capital
• device
• devices
• entree
• expediency
• expedient
• funds
• hope
• instrumentality
• intermediation
• machinery
• makeshift
• means
• mechanism
• mediation
• method
• power
• refuge
• remedy
• reserve
• resort
• resource
• resources
• service
• shift
• stock
• stopgap
• substitute
• supply
• ways
• wherewithal