wherewithal

Noun
US[wair-wih-thawl]/ˈwɛrwɪˌðɔl/3 syllablesalso [hwair-wih-thawl] /ˈhwɛrwɪˌðɔl/

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. the necessary means (especially financial means)Type of means, substance
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Where′with·al′ adv. & n.

Wherewith. “Wherewithal shall we be clothed?” Matt. vi. 31.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?— Ps. cxix. 9.
[The builders of Babel], still with vain design, New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build.— John Milton

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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