ways and means
The ways and means of achieving something are the methods and other things needed to make it happen:
With computer technology, even people working on their own have the ways and means to produce professional-looking documents.

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ways and means
methods of achieving something.
She spent years exploring ways and means of improving children's nutrition.

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ways and means
the raising of money to pay for something
The woman doesn't have the ways and means to give her children a good education.

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ways and means
n. plural Methods of getting something done or getting money; how something can be done and paid for.
The boys were trying to think of ways and means to go camping for the weekend.
The United States Senate has a committee on ways and means.

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