'means' definitions:
Definition of 'means'
(from WordNet)
noun
How a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success" [syn: means, agency, way]
noun
An instrumentality for accomplishing some end
noun
Considerable capital (wealth or income); "he is a man of means" [syn: means, substance]
Synonyms of 'means'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- algorithm,
- answer,
- apparatus,
- approach,
- artifice,
- assessed valuation,
- assets,
- assets and liabilities,
- attack,
- available means,
- balance,
- bank account,
- bottom dollar,
- budget,
- capital,
- capital goods,
- capitalization,
- cash reserves,
- checking account,
- circumstances,
- command of money,
- contraption,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course,
- course of action,
- current assets,
- deferred assets,
- demarche,
- device,
- dodge,
- effort,
- exchequer,
- expedient,
- fashion,
- finances,
- fixed assets,
- form,
- frozen assets,
- fund,
- funds,
- gadget,
- gimcrack,
- gimmick,
- gizmo,
- grist,
- guise,
- hand tool,
- holdings,
- implement,
- improvisation,
- instrument,
- intangible assets,
- intangibles,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- kitty,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- life savings,
- line,
- line of action,
- lines,
- liquid assets,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- manner,
- manner of working,
- material assets,
- measure,
- mechanical device,
- method,
- methodology,
- MO,
- mode,
- mode of operation,
- mode of procedure,
- modus operandi,
- moneys,
- move,
- nest egg,
- net assets,
- net worth,
- order,
- pecuniary resources,
- pis aller,
- pocket,
- pool,
- power tool,
- practice,
- precision tool,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- process,
- property,
- purse,
- quick assets,
- reserves,
- resort,
- resource,
- resources,
- routine,
- savings,
- savings account,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- solution,
- speed tool,
- step,
- stock,
- stock-in-trade,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- style,
- substance,
- supply,
- Swiss bank account,
- system,
- tack,
- tactic,
- tangible assets,
- tangibles,
- technique,
- temporary expedient,
- the drill,
- the how,
- the way of,
- tone,
- tool,
- treasure,
- trick,
- trump,
- unregistered bank account,
- utensil,
- way,
- wealth,
- wherewithal,
- wise,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
Words containing 'means'
- By all means,
- By any means,
- By no means,
- Mean,
- Meaning,
- Meaningly,
- Meanly,
- Meanness,
- by means of,
- mean deviation from the mean,
- Amphiuma means,
- By any manner of means,
- By no manner of means,
- Golden mean,
- Harmonical mean,
- Mean distance,
- Mean error,
- Mean line,
- Mean noon,
- Mean proportional,
- Mean sun,
- Mean time,
- Means grass,
- Means of grace,
- To mean business,
- Ways and means,
- arithmetic mean,
- arithmetical mean,
- by artificial means,
- double meaning,
- geometric mean,
- geometrical mean,
- grace means of,
- grammatical meaning,
- harmonic mean,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- man of means,
- mean deviation,
- mean value,
- means test,
- means to an end,
- word meaning,
- Error of the mean square,
- Extreme and mean ratio,
- Mean solar day,
- Mean-spiritedness,
- Well-meaning,
- greenwich mean time,
- mean solar time,
- mean square deviation,
- mean-spirited,
- regression toward the mean,
- ways and means committee,
- Mean-square error