instrumentality

instrumentality
n
1. helpfulness, helping hand, assistance, aid, ministry; conduciveness, contributiveness, help, support, patronage, advocacy, backing; aegis, auspices, good offices.
2. usefulness, utility, serviceability, serviceableness; service, action, intervention, mediation, good word; effectiveness, effectuality, efficacy, efficaciousness, avail; power, influence, Sl. pull, Sl. clout, Sl. drag; value, importance, significance, indispensibility, indispensibleness.
3. means, way, vehicle, expedient, wherewithal, resource; strategy, system, method, manner, mode, Latin, modus operandi; agency, instrument, device, mechanism, machine, machinery; catalyst, mover, prime mover, aide, help, stepping stone, way up the ladder; key, passkey, passport, way in, door opener, password, open sesame, magic words.

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