ways and means
Speech parts
1. ways and means - Noun
2. ways and means - Phrase
Meaning
Resources for achieving anything.
Schemes for raising money for the carrying on of government.
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Examples
The world is full of ways and means to waste time.
Rejuvenate the Youth Congress. Make it more effective. People-oriented. I will supervise how the Youth Congress is performing and suggest ways and means to improve the way it works. It has to have a positive, dynamic image.
So long as any one can speak of divine things, enjoy and understand them, remember and desire them, he has not yet arrived in port; yet there are ways and means to guide him thither. But the creature can know nothing but what God gives him to know from day to day.
As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
I head off to the conference room for the Ways and Means Committee meeting-to investigate new ways of being mean, as Bridget (may Nyarlathotep rest her soul) once it explained it to me.
Broadly speaking, the object of industry is to set up economic ways and means of satisfying human wants and in so doing to reduce everything possible to routines requiring a minimum amount of human effort.