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of modest means

of modest means prepositional phrase: having little money, or limited financial resources.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Having little money, or limited financial resources.
    • In the succeeding years I paid many more visits to Scotland; this was made easy even for those of modest means, by that wonderful institution, the "Inverness Tourist." For £3 one could get a ticket from London to Inverness and back with a wide choice of routes, […].1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496

Questions about of modest means

What does of modest means mean?
Of modest means means having little money, or limited financial resources.
What part of speech is of modest means?
Of modest means is a prepositional phrase.

Words near of modest means in the dictionary

  1. of itself
  2. of Koranic proportions
  3. of late
  4. of means
  5. of mine
  6. of modest means
  7. of new
  8. of no avail
  9. of note
  10. of old
  11. of one mind

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