Regrettably, he lacks the financial wherewithal to run a presidential campaign.
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Wherewithal
//ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɔl//
Synonyms for "wherewithal" (106 found)
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Related words (53)
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7 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- mitjans noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Czech
1 entries- prostředky noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Dutch
2 entries- waarmede adv (in what way; how)
- middelen noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Finnish
4 entries- kuinka adv (in what way; how)
- miten adv (in what way; how)
- kyky noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- varat noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
French
1 entries- moyens noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
German
4 entries- wodurch adv (in what way; how)
- womit adv (in what way; how)
- Geldmittel noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- Mittel noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Hungarian
3 entries- a szükséges eszköz/összeg noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- anyagiak noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- hozzávalók noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Italian
4 entries- come adv (in what way; how)
- mezzi noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- necessario noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- occorrente noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Japanese
1 entries- 甲斐性 noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Portuguese
2 entries- meios noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- recursos noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Romanian
1 entries- resurse noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Spanish
4 entries- capacidad noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- caudal noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- dinero noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- medios noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Swedish
4 entries- varmed adv (in what way; how)
- medel noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- möjlighet noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
- resurs noun (the ability and means to accomplish some task)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal.
Source: wiktionary
Justice was sold at the tribunals, and the most enormous crimes escaped from punishment, when the criminals had wherewithal to corrupt their judges.
Source: wiktionary
Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?
Source: wiktionary
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