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means test noun Etymology: from means, plural of mean (VI) 1. : a searching examination of the financial state of an unemployed person and his resident family formerly made in Great Britain when such a person had exhausted his unemployment insurance payments in order to determine his eligibility for payments from other public funds 2. : any examination of the financial state of a person as a condition precedent to receiving social insurance, public assistance benefits, or other payments from public funds |