the wherewithalnoun [ S ]
uk/ˈweə.wɪ.ðɔːl/us/ˈwer.wɪ.ðɑːl/the money necessary for a particular purpose:
I'd like to buy a bigger house, but I don't have the wherewithal.
[ + to infinitive ] Poor families lack the wherewithal to hire good lawyers.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Amounts of money
- ante
- balance
- bank
- blood money
- bounty
- buck
- budget
- capital
- circumstance
- daily bread
- float
- have/get your snout in the trough idiom
- living wage
- money supply
- nut
- payout
- pool
- slush fund
- sub
- trough
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