The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MEANS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result MEANS
- Intend initially sharing resources
- Capital agency produces statistics
- Intends to have different names in the same answer
- Wicked sex, enough to get by on
- Has plans to make money
- Provides staff for securing energy facility
- Intends to create wealth
- Humble son getting resources
- Income is important
- Indicates an unpopular test
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What does MEANS mean?
MEANS verb- To lament.
- To intend.
- To convey (a meaning).
- To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
- To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
- (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
- (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
- (in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
- Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
- The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
- The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean.
- Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
- Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
- Resources; riches.
- An instrument or condition for attaining a purpose.