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Ways and means

noun

Resources available to meet expenses (especially legislation for raising revenue for a government).

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... knew of this corruption. The League, ignoring ways and means, supposed as a matter of course that ...

— The Octopus • Frank Norris

... fact; we all accepted it as our most pressing need and fell to discussing ways and means. There was already a full wagon-load of the sacked ore hidden under the sleeping-shack, and at the rate the lode was widening we could confidently figure on getting out as much more every second day, ...

— Branded • Francis Lynde

... is a reprint, somewhat amplified, of an article printed recently in the New York Times. The original article was written before the recommendations of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of ...

— War Taxation - Some Comments and Letters • Otto H. Kahn

... it in an illicit manner, to defy the minor social proprieties and unblushingly to steal, than not to possess oneself of it at all. If you are really hungry, you know, you learn not to be too nice as to the ways and means of ...

— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet

... although it be necessary in our computations to proceed upon equalities. Thus also, in the use of means, we are not to prescribe to nature those alone which we think suitable for the purpose, in our narrow view. It is our business to learn of nature (that is by observation) the ways and means, which in her wisdom are adopted; and we are to imagine these only in order to find means for further information, and to increase our knowledge from the examination of things which actually have been. It is in this manner, ...

— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton

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