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means
has definitions from the field of economics
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[ noun ] how a result is obtained or an end is achieved
Examples "a means of control" "an example is the best agency of instruction" "the true way to success" Used in print (John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)Are you following competition willy-nilly - trying to match dollar for dollar - or are you experimenting with new means for reaching and influencing consumers ? (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)The infamous Wansee_Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942 , to organize the material and technical means to put_to_death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe , was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state , including the Reich_Minister_of_the_Interior , the State_Secretary in_charge of the Four_Year_Plan , the Reich_Minister_of_Justice , the Under_Secretary_of_Foreign_Affairs . (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)What determines the morality , they state , is not the means used , but the motive . In_general , the means ( excluding abortion ) that prove most effective are considered the most ethical . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)By means of charts showing wave travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations , it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time_of_arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under_way at any spot in the Pacific . |
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[ noun ] instrumentality used to achieve an end
Used in print (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)In 1920 , the Lambeth_Conference repeated its 1908 condemnation of contraception and issued `` an emphatic warning against the use of unnatural means for the avoidance of conception , together_with the grave dangers - physical , moral , and religious - thereby incurred , and against the evils which the extension of such use threaten the race '' . (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)Practically all the people of Laos , he explained - about two million of them - are rice farmers , and the means and motives of modern war are as strange to them as clocks and steel plows . (Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify , project , or augment man 's control over himself and over other men . (The Department of State: A Fresh Look at the...)Means must be found to enable us to keep in touch as regularly and as efficiently as possible with our colleagues in other departments concerned with foreign_policy . (H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)These things have been disseminated by other means , but always in the wake of extensive publication of analytic results . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1923
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[ noun ] (economics) considerable capital (wealth or income)
Synonyms Examples "he is a man of means" Related terms |
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