ways and means
Resources and methods
Ways and means are the methods and resources for accomplishing something, especially for raising money.
The phrase appears most often in government contexts: a Ways and Means Committee handles taxation and revenue.
More generally, it covers both the how and the with-what: We'll find the ways and means to get this done.
Available financial resources
- capitalWealth used for investment
- assetsOwned items of value
- budgetPlan for spending
- revenueBusiness income total
financing · backing · provisions · wherewithal · allocation · endowment · treasury · sponsorship
Planned approach to goals
- tacticsMethods to achieve goals
- procedurePrescribed sequence of actions
- approachWay of handling something
- techniqueSkilled way of performing
methodology · system · mechanism · modus operandi · blueprint · plan · scheme · formula
Designated funds for purposes
- taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
- fiscal policyState spending and taxation
- expenditureMoney paid out
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
congressional · oversight · jurisdiction · revenue bills · spending · government funding · tax law · legislative process
funds
Available financial resources
revenue · financing · backing · provisions · wherewithal · allocation · endowment · treasury · sponsorship · investment
strategy
Planned approach to goals
- tacticsMethods to achieve goals
- procedurePrescribed sequence of actions
- approachWay of handling something
technique · methodology · system · mechanism · modus operandi · blueprint · plan · scheme · formula · roadmap
appropriations
Designated funds for purposes
- taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
- fiscal policyState spending and taxation
- expenditureMoney paid out
legislation · congressional · oversight · jurisdiction · revenue bills · spending · government funding · tax law · legislative process
- State Legislaturesstate senate, state assembly, state senator, general assembly, legislative session
- Congresssenator, representative, senators, House, bill
- committeescommittee, budget committee, ethics committee, standing committee, finance committee
- legislaturesparliament, legislature, senate, House of Commons, Senate
- public financepublic debt, budget deficit, tax revenue, budgets, expenditure
- legislative committeesstanding committees, select committees, special committees, joint committees, subcommittees
ways and meansobstacles
Things in the way
barriers · impediments · obstructions · roadblocks · hindrances
ways and meanslack of resources
Insufficient available materials
helplessness · powerlessness · inability · impotence · incapacity
ways and meansproblems
Situations needing resolution
difficulties · challenges · complications · predicaments · dilemmas
mean, means, ways, highway, railway, waterway, pathway, meanness, meaner