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wheeler-dealer
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context informal English) A shrewd, and often unscrupulous, person who advances his own interests by scheming; a hustler; political or commercial shady operator.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer . ▪ Where Mr Perot has built real companies, Mr Riordan's career has mainly been spent as a wheeler-dealer .
Usage examples of wheeler-dealer.
Bill Brunt, the wheeler-dealer lawyer from Hanover, Ontario, and Allister Grosart, the big-city pitchman from Toronto.
Then he went over to herb-and-marijuana panatelas, anxious to maintain his image as a Golden Age wheeler-dealer, but not so anxious for a long convalescence or opportunistic infection following a double pulmonary.
BUCHAN knew crooks and wheeler-dealers: just as Andy must have known them when he had his greyhound, whose name she had recently learned was Retribution.
The hall outside the courtrooms was perpetually packed with wheeler-dealers, shysters, losers, the frightened, the bewildered.