find a means

  • 1means — [miːnz] noun [plural] the money and resources that a person or organization has available: means to do something • Large corporations have the means to pay large fines without suffering hardship. • The group has limited means. • young families… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 2Find — (f[imac]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Found} (found); p. pr. & vb. n. {Finding}.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin[thorn]an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. pi ptein to fall,… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 3means-test — ˈmeans test noun [countable] an official check in order to find out if someone is poor enough to receive welfare benefit S (= payments from the state when you are ill, without work etc): • He has made proposals for means tests for Social Security …

    Financial and business terms

  • 4means-testing — means test ˈmeans test noun [countable] an official check in order to find out if someone is poor enough to receive welfare benefit S (= payments from the state when you are ill, without work etc): • He has made proposals for means tests for… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 5means-tested — means test ˈmeans test noun [countable] an official check in order to find out if someone is poor enough to receive welfare benefit S (= payments from the state when you are ill, without work etc): • He has made proposals for means tests for… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 6means test — n an official check in order to find out whether someone is poor enough to need money from the government >means tested adj ▪ means tested benefits …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 7means test — means ,test noun count an examination of your income in order to find out whether you have the right to receive any extra money from the government ╾ means ,test verb intransitive or transitive …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 8Means — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Means >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 means means resources wherewithal ways and means Sgm: N 1 capital capital &c.(money) 800 Sgm: N 1 revenue revenue Sgm: N 1 stock in trade stock in trade …

    English dictionary for students

  • 9Find — The find program is a directory search utility on Unix like platforms. It searches through one or more directory trees of a filesystem, locating files based on some user specified criteria. By default, find returns all files below the current… …

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  • 10means */*/*/ — UK [miːnz] / US [mɪnz] noun Word forms means : singular means plural means 1) [countable] a method for doing or achieving something Information is not easily obtained by any other means. an effective means for finding qualified job applicants… …

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