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wheeling and dealing en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The activity of working as an intermediary, making a profit from buying and selling things, or making contracts between parties.
    • Broadway vet Stewart is the only person enjoying themselves on-camera, rattling off soliloquies about the virtues of capitalism and explaining his wheelings and dealings while guns are pointed in his direction and bombs detonate in the background. 2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2019:

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wheeling and dealing en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of wheel and deal