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wherewithal

noun as in necessary means

noun as in ability

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Example Sentences

Somebody maybe doesn't have the wherewithal to get out, the means to get out—I had that.

I lack the wherewithal to start my own competing certifying board, to say nothing of the chutzpah.

Those who have the wherewithal to shop online with greater ease and frequency have a greater ability to avoid sales taxes.

The British middle class no longer had servants--but they also lacked the wherewithal to obtain fancy new appliances.

“Even if you had the wherewithal to embarrass a reporter, there was no mechanism to do it,” Mr. Cramer said.

But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.

Secondly, we had already been for some time at work to fix up the wherewithal to meet our chronic nightmare, the water trouble.

And how do you know that I have got wherewithal to pay the reckoning?

If they have wherewithal to persuade the Jury to bring it in Manslaughter, what are they the worse for it?

He immediately clamored for the wherewithal to fill an aching void that was making itself painfully felt in his midsection.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wherewithal, such as: assets, finances, financing, funds, means, and money.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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