desperate measure

1. 1.

   desperate actions taken as a means to an end

   “he had to resort to desperate measures”

   Broadermeans

Questions about desperate measure

What does desperate measure mean?

desperate measure means "desperate actions taken as a means to an end".

Is desperate measure a common word?

desperate measure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.