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wherewithal

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[ UK /wˈe‍əwɪðˌɔːl/ ]
[ US /ˈhwɛɹwɪˌðɔɫ, ˈwɛɹwɪˌðɔɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the necessary means (especially financial means)

How To Use wherewithal In A Sentence

  • You need someone in charge with common sense, but also with the organizational wherewithal to actually get something done. Brett King: #Winning at Social Media
  • The best course in dealing with both countries is to limit their wherewithal for strategic mischief.
  • Finally, we have witnessed the astounding effort of Soviet Russia to "come back" in the world's agricultural markets in order to get the "wherewithal" to carry out the Five Year Plan. The Current Business Situation
  • The vast majority of prisoners would lack the wherewithal to gather the witnesses and documents needed.
  • Review your assets to determine whether you have the financial wherewithal to afford the costs of operating a franchise.
  • It is true, there were a few scraps of putrid fish in the boat, and Tom had found a fishing-line under the bottom-boards forward, so that, having a line and the wherewithal to bait it, they might possibly succeed in catching a _few_ fish. The Voyage of the Aurora
  • I do not have robes and I do not have the wherewithal to obtain them and I seek permission of the Court to appear before you in mufti and civvies.
  • What kinde of rafters? what manner of roofe? after what sort the Parlors chambers, closets and lodgings, were disposed? with what kind of seeling they were enclosed and incrusted? wherewithall hanged? with what couler and kinde of painting ouerhead? Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
  • Some companies with the wherewithal to avoid taxes by magicking profits to some far-flung destination do precisely that. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was much happiness—Arthur now had a plump baby daughter, Mary, to dandle on his knee—and, thanks to Sherlock Holmes, the wherewithal to do a “proper” Christmas, with all the trimmings. Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
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