'wherewithal' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It typically means the resources or means necessary for achieving a goal or satisfying a need, and can be used in any context related to obtaining what is needed in order to do something. Example sentence: She had the wherewithal to open her own business.
Implicit in the latter was an assumption that volunteerism lacked the powers and wherewithal of the state to provide basic, universal services.
He just said give us the weapons and the wherewithal and the air cover and they will take this fight to Isis".
This required the wherewithal to format an ebook file and set up a PayPal plug-in, but it meant that authors got all the money from book sales, and were protected from the whims of the big retailers.
And even if he did, he doesn't have the energy or wherewithal to deal with the myriad economic and social problems he has created under his dictatorship.
Having been ahead of the game in 3G, Europe fell behind America and much of Asia in rolling out 4G. Ms Kroes sees opportunity ahead.Europe's operators may wonder where they will find the wherewithal.
"International flows of funds in the banking system can be a source of contagion but also of resilience," says Mr Sands.Financial fragmentation also challenges one of the great promises of globalisation: that savings-poor countries will be able to find the wherewithal to finance essential investment by borrowing abroad.
Eight years have passed since the Gulf war, yet Saddam Hussein is still in power in Iraq, still oppressing his people, still shooting at the American and British warplanes that try to contain him, still hiding some of the arms, or the wherewithal for making them, that the UN Security Council said he should give up before the trade embargo would be lifted.
Business has not only provided her with the wherewithal to take on her opponent, Jerry Brown, a professional politician who is the son of a professional politician: so far she has sunk $119m of her $1.3 billion fortune into the race.
Ambac wrote down the value of its subprime mortage guarantees by $5.2 billion last quarter, but it nonetheless maintains that it has the wherewithal to withstand the current crisis.
Mr Paananen says he now has the wherewithal to build the "company of my dreams".
But the best guess is that the Iranians will still spin things out, while beavering away at getting the wherewithal for a bomb.
