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wherewithal
UK /ˈwɛə.wɪ.ðɔːl/ US /ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɔl/
adv 2noun 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
corrupt, financial, together
VERB + WHEREWITHAL
lacks, scrape
Definitions
noun
1
The ability and means required to accomplish some task.
I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal.
Justice was sold at the tribunals, and the most enormous crimes escaped from punishment, when the criminals had wherewithal to corrupt their judges.
adv
1
In what way; how.
Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way? by taking heede thereto according to thy word.
2
By means of which.
Rich. Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mounting Bullingbrooke aſcends my Throne
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I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal.
Wiktionary02
Justice was sold at the tribunals, and the most enormous crimes escaped from punishment, when the criminals had wherewithal to corrupt their judges.
Wiktionary03
Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?
Wiktionary04
Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way? by taking heede thereto according to thy word.
Wiktionary05
Rich. Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mounting Bullingbrooke aſcends my Throne
Wiktionary06
Regrettably, he lacks the financial wherewithal to run a presidential campaign.
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