wherewithal

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The ability and means required to accomplish some task.

   “I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal.”

   “Justice was sold at the tribunals, and the most enormous crimes escaped from punishment, when the criminals had wherewithal to corrupt their judges.”

   “Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?”

   “"I just can't imagine," Philip said, "having that kind of self-knowledge, that kind of...wherewithal at fifteen.[…]"”

   “[…] A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control.”

adv

1. (archaic, not-comparable)In what way; how.

   “Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way? by taking heede thereto according to thy word.”

2. (archaic, not-comparable)By means of which.

   “Rich. Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mounting Bullingbrooke aſcends my Throne”