0 the money necessary for a particular purpose:
I'd like to buy a bigger house, but I don't have the wherewithal.
[ + to infinitive ] Poor families lack the wherewithal to hire good lawyers.
1 the money necessary for a particular purpose:
They would also have the wherewithal to purchase bottled water, to dig private wells, and to install private sewage systems.
Autonomous organizations are important because they provide individuals with the organizational wherewithal to challenge public officials.
And it shapes the economic environment within which people earn income and gain wealth-and thus the wherewithal to engage in these transactions.
Nonetheless, more of the more recent retirees lack adequate retirement resources or the wherewithal to avoid poverty or near poverty.
When we lack the clues or the wherewithal, identity remains cloaked.
Others do not have the wherewithal, even if they have the motivation, to constitute themselves in these new subjectivities.
If that insurance is not within the financial wherewithal of employees, then their interests quite simply are not being served.
Unlike a homebound woman or a working man chained to a desk, he has the freedom and the wherewithal to plunge into excess and riot.