- beyond your means
- beyond your means► if you are living beyond your means, you are spending more money than you earn: »
Too many people live beyond their means.
Main Entry: ↑means
Financial and business terms. 2012.
beyond your means
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beyond your means — beyond (your) means too expensive for you. We bought a retirement home, but at first the repair work was beyond our means. Opposite of: within (your) means … New idioms dictionary
live beyond your means — ► to spend more than you earn: »To avoid slipping into debt, don t live beyond your means. Main Entry: ↑live … Financial and business terms
live beyond your means — live beyond/within/your means phrase to have a way of life in which you spend more money than you earn less money than you earn Thesaurus: to spend or to pay moneysynonym Main entry: live … Useful english dictionary
within your means — within (your) means without spending more than the money you have. We need to reduce spending and live within our means. Opposite of: beyond (your) means … New idioms dictionary
means — [miːnz] noun [plural] the money and resources that a person or organization has available: means to do something • Large corporations have the means to pay large fines without suffering hardship. • The group has limited means. • young families… … Financial and business terms
beyond means — beyond (your) means too expensive for you. We bought a retirement home, but at first the repair work was beyond our means. Opposite of: within (your) means … New idioms dictionary
live within your means — live beyond/within/your means phrase to have a way of life in which you spend more money than you earn less money than you earn Thesaurus: to spend or to pay moneysynonym Main entry: live … Useful english dictionary
means — /mi:nz/ noun plural means 1 METHOD (C) a method, system, object etc that you use as a way of achieving a result (+ of): What would be the most effective means of advertising our product? | means of transport BrE /transportation AmE: We had no… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
means — noun 1 method of doing sth ADJECTIVE ▪ appropriate, convenient, effective, efficient, reliable, useful ▪ an effective means of mass communication ▪ … Collocations dictionary
means — [ minz ] (plural means) noun *** 1. ) count a method for doing or achieving something: WAY: Information is not easily obtained by any other means. an effective means for finding qualified job applicants means of: What means of transportation is… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
