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Verb recurs, recurring, recurred
recur - happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story"
		repeat
		come about, hap, take place, occur, fall out, go on, happen, pass off, pass come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her"
		iterate run or be performed again; "the function iterates"
		cycle recur in repeating sequences
recur - return in thought or speech to something
		go back
		hark back, come back, recall, return go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
recur - have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"
		fall back, resort
		utilise, employ, utilize, use, apply convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust)

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recur (Verb)
To have recourse to someone or something for assistance, support etc.
recur (Verb)
To happen again.
recur (Verb)
To recurse.

recur (v. i.)
To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
recur (v. i.)
To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.
recur (v. i.)
To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.

recur
rē-kur′, v.i. to return, resort: to happen at a stated interval:—pr.p. recur′ring; pa.t. and pa.p. recurred′.—ns. Recur′rence, Recur′rency, return.—adj. Recur′rent, returning at intervals: (anat.) running back in the opposite to a former direction: (entom.) turned back toward the base.—adv. Recur′rently.—Recurring decimal, a decimal in which after a certain point the digits are continually repeated—repeating, if but one recurring figure; circulating, if more than one. [Fr.,—L. recurrĕre—re-, back, currĕre, to run.]