wherewithal

UK /ˈwɛə.wɪ.ðɔːl/ US /ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɔl/
adv 2noun 1

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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