Wherewithal

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.

Adverb

 * 1)  In what way; how.
 * 2) * 1662, Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 119:9,
 * Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?
 * 1) * 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 67:
 * "I just can't imagine," Philip said, "having that kind of self-knowledge, that kind of...wherewithal at fifteen.[...]"

Thesaurus
Swiss bank account, ability, and pence, assets, balance, bank account, bottom dollar, budget, capacity, capital, cash, cash reserves, checking account, circulating medium, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, command of money, currency, devices, disposable resources, dollars, emergency money, exchequer, filthy lucre, finances, fractional currency, fund, funds, gold, hard cash, hard currency, kitty, legal tender, life savings, lucre, mammon, managed currency, means, medium of exchange, method, mintage, money, moneys, necessity money, nest egg, pecuniary resources, pelf, pocket, pool, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, power, purse, recourses, reserves, resorts, resources, savings, savings account, scrip, shillings, silver, soft currency, specie, sterling, stock, substance, supply, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, treasure, unregistered bank account, ways, ways and means, wherewith

Noun

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 * wherewith
 * withal