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private means

noun

Definitions

  1. A reasonable degree of wealth.

    • He was a well-travelled man of private means.
    • We believe that in early life he intended to take up a railway career, but he never did, and lived on his private means, devoting his studies to historical matters, principally in connection with Somerset.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, means.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA