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wherewithal

/hwair-with-awl, -with-, wair-/US // ˈʰwɛər wɪðˌɔl, -wɪθ-, ˈwɛər- //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : that with which to do something; means or supplies for the purpose or need, especially money: the wherewithal to pay my rent.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : by means of which; out of which.
    • : Archaic. wherewith.
pron.代词 pronoun
  1. 1
    • : wherewith.

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Examples

  • For now, both billionaires have notched big wins—earning their astronaut wings for themselves, and in the process legitimizing their companies’ claims that they have the wherewithal to open a new market for space tourism.

  • While the pandemic particularly hit SMBs, who often lacked the financial wherewithal of larger companies to survive the crisis, Gusto actually expanded its business as new companies sprouted up.

  • You might want to simulate varying power and speed, for example, if you have the wherewithal to deliver more elaborate experiences at certain simulated thresholds implementing a progressive enhancement strategy.

  • If you feel that you do not know the bride well enough or have the personal wherewithal for a time-consuming computer event, then decline — no excuse or present necessary.

  • So you have to reach over and take your temperature and then have the wherewithal to record it as well.

  • Somebody maybe doesn't have the wherewithal to get out, the means to get out—I had that.

  • I lack the wherewithal to start my own competing certifying board, to say nothing of the chutzpah.

  • Those who have the wherewithal to shop online with greater ease and frequency have a greater ability to avoid sales taxes.

  • The British middle class no longer had servants--but they also lacked the wherewithal to obtain fancy new appliances.

  • “Even if you had the wherewithal to embarrass a reporter, there was no mechanism to do it,” Mr. Cramer said.

  • But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.

  • Secondly, we had already been for some time at work to fix up the wherewithal to meet our chronic nightmare, the water trouble.

  • And how do you know that I have got wherewithal to pay the reckoning?

  • If they have wherewithal to persuade the Jury to bring it in Manslaughter, what are they the worse for it?

  • He immediately clamored for the wherewithal to fill an aching void that was making itself painfully felt in his midsection.