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"text": "Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?",
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"ref": "1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 67",
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"text": "In political economic terms, the pandemic worked to intensify a development that the decline in the neoliberal order had already set in motion: namely, a conviction that government was the only institution with the wherewithal to address severe economic and social hardship.",
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[
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "mitjans"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
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"plural"
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"word": "prostředky"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"word": "middelen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"word": "kyky"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"word": "varat"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "moyens"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
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"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "Mittel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "Geldmittel"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"plural"
],
"word": "Mittel und Wege"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "hozzávalók"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"word": "a szükséges eszköz/összeg"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "anyagiak"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "occorrente"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
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"plural"
],
"word": "mezzi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "necessario"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaishou",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"word": "甲斐性"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "meios"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "recursos"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
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"plural"
],
"word": "resurse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "medios"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the ability and means to accomplish some task",
"word": "varmed"
}
],
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}
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"English 4-syllable words",
"English adverbs",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English pronominal adverbs",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Requests for review of Mandarin translations"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"sense": "abouts",
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{
"sense": "after",
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{
"sense": "after",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"sense": "among",
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{
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{
"sense": "amongst",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"sense": "as",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"sense": "between",
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{
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{
"sense": "by",
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{
"sense": "by",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"sense": "fore",
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{
"sense": "fore",
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},
{
"sense": "from",
"word": "herefrom"
},
{
"sense": "from",
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{
"sense": "from",
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{
"sense": "hence",
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{
"sense": "hence",
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},
{
"sense": "in",
"word": "herein"
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{
"sense": "in",
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{
"sense": "in",
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},
{
"sense": "in after",
"word": "hereinafter"
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{
"sense": "in after",
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{
"sense": "in after",
"word": "whereinafter"
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{
"sense": "in before",
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{
"sense": "in before",
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},
{
"sense": "in before",
"word": "whereinbefore"
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{
"sense": "into",
"word": "hereinto"
},
{
"sense": "into",
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{
"sense": "into",
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{
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{
"sense": "of",
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{
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{
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{
"sense": "on",
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{
"sense": "on",
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{
"sense": "out",
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{
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{
"sense": "out",
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{
"sense": "to",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"sense": "unto",
"word": "thereunto"
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{
"sense": "unto",
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{
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{
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{
"sense": "upon",
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{
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{
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{
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},
{
"sense": "withal",
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},
{
"sense": "withal",
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"categories": [
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],
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"In what way; how."
],
"links": [
[
"how",
"how"
]
],
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"(archaic) In what way; how."
],
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"not-comparable"
]
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{
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],
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{
"word": "wherewith"
}
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"tags": [
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]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɔl/",
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]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.θɔl/",
"tags": [
"US"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɑl/",
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{
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/En-au-wherewithal.ogg",
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "waarmede"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "kuinka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "miten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "wodurch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "womit"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "come"
}
],
"word": "wherewithal"
}
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