means

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of mean
2. An instrument or condition to achieve a result.

   “She treated him as a means to an end.”

   “A car is a means of transport.”

   “And by this means also he had them the more at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march; and more at mercy, being cut off far from their country, and therefore not able by any sudden flight to get to retreat, and to renew their troubles.”

   “Our hope in him is dead: let us return, And strain what other means is left unto us In our dear peril.”

   “In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.”

3. (plural, plural-only, uncountable)Financial resources; wealth.

   “a person of means; independent means”

   “He was living beyond his means.”

   “Where there is much means to be used, and conditions yet to be performed, for the continuation and Consummation of our Justification, there it is not yet continued or consummate.”

   “Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce”

   “Then the other 12 packers […] were men without much means, who lived in Fresno”

4. (plural, plural-only, uncountable)Financial resources; wealth.

   “She is a woman of means.”

   “Hotels that are so priced that only people of means can stay.”

   “Some kind of writer. He didn't have to make a living; he had means.”

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of mean

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky, United States.