Usually means: Methods to achieve financial resources.
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  1. ways and means: Merriam-Webster
  2. ways and means: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ways and means: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ways and means: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ways and means: Vocabulary.com
  6. ways and means: Wordnik
  7. ways and means: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ways and means: Wiktionary
  9. ways and means: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ways and means: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ways and means: Dictionary.com
  12. Ways and Means (The West Wing), Ways and Means (Xenophon), Ways and Means (disambiguation), Ways and Means (play): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. ways and means: Rhymezone
  14. WAYS AND MEANS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. Ways and Means: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. ways and means: FreeDictionary.org
  17. ways and means: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. ways and means: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ways and means: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. ways and means: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. ways and means: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ways and means)

▸ noun:  Resources for achieving anything.
▸ noun:  Schemes for raising money for the carrying on of government.

Similar:
mean, works, instrument, mode, apparatus, formula, plan, drive, vehicle, agency, more...

Opposite:
ends, goals, objectives

Phrases:
Ways and means committee, United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Chairman of Ways and Means, more...

Adjectives:
conducing, purpose-built, way, resolved, determinate, dedicated, adapt, choosey, accommodate, opportune, tailor-made

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Similar:
mean, works, instrument, mode, apparatus, formula, plan, drive, vehicle, agency, more...

Opposite:
ends, goals, objectives

Phrases:
Ways and means committee, United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Chairman of Ways and Means, more...

Adjectives:
conducing, purpose-built, way, resolved, determinate, dedicated, adapt, choosey, accommodate, opportune, tailor-made



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