private means
Noun
Meaning
A reasonable degree of wealth.
He was a well-travelled man of private means.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, means.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
He is not there on business since he appears to have private means.
He does not appear to have a job and is described as having private means although he describes himself as "a traveling salesman in wines and spirits."
The historian Loren J. Samons II argues, however, that Pericles had enough resources to make a political mark by private means, had he so chosen.
The party also confiscated all private means of transportation.