Synonyms for means
means

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1. means

   In strict philosophical usage, the prime mover or doer of an act is the agent. Thus we speak of man as a voluntary agent, a free agent. But in common usage, especially in business, an agent is not the prime actor, but only an instrument or factor, acting under orders or instructions. Compare CAUSE.

   Synonyms:
   actor, agent, doer, factor, instrument, mover, operator, performer, promoter

   Antonyms:
   chief, inventor, originator, principal

   Preposition:
   An agent of the company for selling, etc.

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1. means

   Synonyms:
   resources, instrument, media

   Antonyms:
   end, purpose, object

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1. means, agency, waynoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   direction, government agency, manner, way, delegacy, elbow room, substance, style, federal agency, agency, path, way of life, bureau, office, representation, fashion, authority, mode, room

2. meansnoun

   an instrumentality for accomplishing some end

   Synonyms:
   substance, way, agency

3. means, substancenoun

   considerable capital (wealth or income)

   "he is a man of means"

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, meat, subject matter, core, nub, inwardness, sum, way, gist, heart and soul, substance, center, agency, centre, kernel, meaning, essence, message, heart, content, marrow, pith

Matched Categories

1. • Capital
   • Instrumentality

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1. meansn. sing. pl.

   Synonyms:
   instrument, method, mode, way

2. meansn. sing. pl.

   Synonyms:
   resource, appliance, expedient, shift, step, measure

3. meansn. sing. pl.

   Synonyms:
   revenue, income, resources, the wherewithal, ways and means

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1. meansnoun

   Synonyms:
   property, possessions, wealth, resources, riches, estate, instrument, agency, instrumentality, method, way, facility, expedient, resource, contrivance, resort, device, artifice

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1. List of paraphrases for "means":

   ways, mean, average, implies, way, media, medium, resources, pleas, methods, instruments, signifies, instrument, east, involves, tools, tool, entails, funds, designates, modes, avenues, method, represents, wherewithal, manner, approaches, channels, capacity, plea, facilities, is, mode, middle, measures, refers, translates, moyens, modalities, bias, medio, half, meaning, capabilities, midst

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1. Duncan McLaren:

   It is possible that the coast was one of the means by which people entered the Americas at the time.

2. Donald Trump:

   I think you'd admit that the things you say when you're in a certain situation without the requisite experience that may come later shouldn't be held against you, you may have great ideas about what it means to be a parent, but you have no idea what it means to bear the responsibility once you have children. This is the same situation.

3. Alex Mundt:

   I think it’s a tragic milestone, it means that in less than a month or in just about a month, 4 million people have been uprooted from their homes, from their families, their communities, in what is the fastest exodus of refugees moving in recent history.

4. Robert DeNiro:

   Robert DeNiro repeated several times that Robert DeNiro is not anti-vaccine. There's something there that people aren't addressing, and for me to get so upset here today, on the ‘ Today ’ show, with you guys, means that there's something there.

5. Justice Ginsburg:

   There will never be a time when women of means will lack choice.