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private means en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. 1950 July, “The Historian of the G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 433:
  2. (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, means.