Table of Contents THESAURUS

RELATED WORDS : back end be all and end all bitter end box end wrench butt end by all means by any means by artificial means by means of by no means dead end end end all end game end man end matter end of the world end on end organ end point end product end result end run end up end user fag end front end gable end hind end in the end loose end man of means means means grass means test motor end plate nerve end no end on end rear end scrag end split end sticky end tag end tail end tight end war to end war ways and means ways and means committee west end without end

THESAURUS

means to an end

ability, action, ad hoc measure, answer, artifice, capacity, capital, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, demarche, device, devices, disposable resources, dodge, effort, expedient, funds, gimmick, improvisation, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, last expedient, last resort, last shift, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, method, move, pis aller, power, recourses, resort, resorts, resource, resources, shake-up, shift, solution, step, stock, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, supply, tactic, temporary expedient, trick, trump, ways, ways and means, wherewith, wherewithal, working hypothesis, working proposition

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