ways and means

1. 1.

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

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Questions about ways and means

What does ways and means mean?

ways and means means "resources available to meet expenses (especially legislation for raising revenue for a government)".

Is ways and means a common word?

ways and means is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.