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ways (noun)

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  • Ways and Means Committee — ˌWays and ˈMeans Comˌmittee noun ECONOMICS ORGANIZATIONS a group of people in the US government whose job is to find methods of raising money for the work that the government wants to do: • The Ways and Means committee will vote on the proposals… …   Financial and business terms

  • ways — noun a) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched. […] “We still have a ways to go with patterns.” b) A distance. “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him …   Wiktionary

  • ways — noun plural but singular in construction Etymology: Middle English wayes, from genitive of 1way Date: 1580 way 6 < a long ways from home > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Ways and Means Committee — Ways and Means Com,mittee noun singular a committee of members of the U.S. House of Representatives that considers laws about money spent by the government …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • ways and means — noun plural Date: 15th century 1. methods and resources for accomplishing something and especially for defraying expenses 2. often capitalized W&M a. methods and resources for raising the necessary revenues for the expenses of a nation or state b …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Ways and Means Committee — noun (C) AmE a group of representatives in the government of a US state or in Congress who must find money for the government to spend …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • ways and means — noun 1. legislation, methods, and means of raising revenue for the use of the government. 2. methods of accomplishing something …  

  • ways — noun structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑shipway, ↑slipway • Hypernyms: ↑structure, ↑construction • Part Holonyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • ways and means — noun resources available to meet expenses (especially legislation for raising revenue for a government) • Hypernyms: ↑resource …   Useful english dictionary

  • Ways and Means Committee — noun a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue • Hypernyms: ↑standing committee …   Useful english dictionary

  • -ways — suffix forming adjectives and adverbs of direction or manner (sideways) (cf. WISE). Etymology: WAY + S * * * ˌwāzfl>adverb suffix Etymology: Middle English ways, weys, from ways, weyes, wayes, gen. of way, wey way more at way : in ( …   Useful english dictionary

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