wherewithal
part of speech
noun (no plural)
meaning for a pupil
1) The wherewithal is the money or means needed to do something. tree →
2) (old use) The wherewithal is the things needed for a task, such as food for a feast. tree →
sense in the lessons
in tales, a person has the wherewithal to bury someone or to hold a feast for friends
examples
- He had the wherewithal to treat his friends. tree →
- I have no wherewithal to buy a boat. tree →
- They lacked the wherewithal for the long journey. tree →
note
nothing for maths; it names money or means, but it does not change a count
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wherewithal» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.