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n. The activity of working as an intermediary, making a profit from by buying and selling things, or making contracts between parties. vb. (present participle of wheel and deal English)
Usage examples of "wheeling and dealing".
He was not an expert in the area of Ryan's own expertise, nor did he have Pelt's cardsharp's instinct for political wheeling and dealing behind the scene - and, unlike Pelt, Cutter liked to operate without consulting the State Department.
She'd never realized how much fun, how simply exhilarating wheeling and dealing could be.
A business associate, upset at some financial wheeling and dealing?
Archbishop Estrada stared back out the window, felt the surge of loving and cursing and wheeling and dealing of millionaires and beggars that was the life of Mexico City.
Ieyasu had done some shrewd wheeling and dealing behind the scenes.
In terms of power, the Ko-Nikka and Se-Iko outweighed the four other members of the jury, but Ieyasu had done some shrewd wheeling and dealing behind the scenes.
Above all, they felt weary, tired out by the revelry, by the wheeling and dealing and the thick corruption on display in the final days of the festival.
When he'd gone on through the curtain carrying his little white cup, he said, 'Odd to think that lad's father is probably right in the middle of all their wheeling and dealing.
He'd always played the markets, wheeling and dealing since she'd known him, buying low, selling high.
It was quite clear to her with the wheeling and dealing now going on around her that Struan's opening price would be very high.