Meaning

The ability and means required to accomplish some task..

Definitions by Sense

1. The ability and means required to accomplish some task.
2. (archaic) In what way; how.
3. (archaic) By means of which.

Example Sentences

I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal.

Justice was sold at the tribunals, and the most enormous crimes escaped from punishment, when the criminals had wherewithal to corrupt their judges.

Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?

"I just can't imagine," Philip said, "having that kind of self-knowledge, that kind of...wherewithal at fifteen.[…]"

[…] A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control.

Although Emma comes to realise she's trapped in a kind of hell, married to a dullard she despises, she lacks the intellectual wherewithal to plot a breakout more sophisticated than consorting with idiots such as Leon and Rodolphe.

In political economic terms, the pandemic worked to intensify a development that the decline in the neoliberal order had already set in motion: namely, a conviction that government was the only institution with the wherewithal to address severe economic and social hardship.

Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way? by taking heede thereto according to thy word.

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