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Definition of wheeler-dealer in English: wheeler-dealer(also wheeler and dealer) nounwiːləˈdiːləˈˌ(h)wilər ˈdilər A person who engages in commercial or political scheming. （在商业或政治活动中）玩弄手腕者，操纵者 he is a great wheeler-dealer in the corridors of power Example sentencesExamples - This gives you the feeling of actually being there, out there amongst the dusty border towns, amidst the rocks and the hard places, with the wheeler-dealers in shanty tea-stalls.
- Then she hosted cocktail parties for high-flying business men and low crawling wheelers and dealers, one of whom managed to deal the pair right out of their boat.
- So his stunt was to prove to his family just what a sharp wheeler-dealer he normally was during office hours.
- He is a general wheeler-dealer, and has dabbled in building materials, engineering and property.
- For we have had enough of political wheeler-dealers.
- Once a pure and sincere member of the literati, he is now a superb wheeler-dealer in Shanghai's real estate market.
- The game provides such wheelers and dealers with a profile that would not be forthcoming were they to hook up with similarly sized businesses outside of it.
- Three officers spent months working as wheeler-dealers on a market, paying the thieves for mobile phones they had stolen from members of the public.
- By picture's end, Shaw has to navigate a thicket of Chinese organized crime figures, politicos and wheeler-dealers - plus his own traitorous colleagues - to save the day and, not incidentally, his own neck.
- He's an example of India's emerging urban middleclass - the wheeler and dealer with a mobile phone.
- The Burnley boss has been an astute wheeler and dealer in the loan market this season, but again finds his resources stretched to the limit for the forthcoming double-header.
- The syndicalists despised equally the opportunistic orgmen of the parties and the breezy, compromising wheelers and dealers of business.
- You are a classic buy-to-let merchant, otherwise known as a wheeler-dealer.
- Exclusive Some start-ups are comprised of wide-eyed wheelers and dealers with little technical expertise.
- The Algerian wheeler-dealer was on the run from the law last week, his business empire in ruins.
- I can imagine the flood of phone calls to the local association and hear the muttered curses and imprecations of massed wheelers and dealers.
- That said, as a kid I was already a wheeler-dealer.
- He agreed with Pareto that universal suffrage promoted the corrupt and devious political skills of the flatterer, the wheeler-dealer, and the populist demagogue.
- Would you believe these shrewd, profit-minded wheeler-dealers are pocketing a whopping 100 per cent of the profits on the sales of those puppies?!
- He could be brash, streetwise, a wheeler-dealer and charming.
Synonyms mediator, arbitrator, arbiter, moderator, go-between, middleman, intermediary, intercessor, interceder, intervener, conciliator
Derivativesnoun His solace was the absorbing, incestuous, wheeler-dealing of local politics: in the council chamber he wasn't the invalid, he was the star. Example sentencesExamples - Horatio Bottomley, the paper's wheeler-dealing first chairman, was flung into jail where, in 1922, an acquaintance found him stitching mail bags.
- The carriage had cost £500, bought 30 years ago from a wheeler-dealing butcher in Yeadon, money well spent too, judging by its well-kept condition.
- Also, on average, London Labour councils are getting higher grant increases than Conservative councils, which suggests possible political wheeler-dealing.
- Lynn Macgill was amazed to learn how class prejudice and upper-crust wheeler-dealing were rife, especially in setting up Victoria Park.
Rhymesappealer, candela, Coahuila, concealer, dealer, feeler, healer, Keeler, kneeler, Leila, peeler, Philomela, reeler, revealer, Schiele, sealer, sheila, Shelagh, spieler, squealer, stealer, tequila, velar, Vila, wheeler Definition of wheeler-dealer in US English: wheeler-dealer(also wheeler and dealer) nounˈˌ(h)wēlər ˈdēlərˈˌ(h)wilər ˈdilər A person who engages in commercial or political scheming. （在商业或政治活动中）玩弄手腕者，操纵者 he is a great wheeler-dealer in the corridors of power Example sentencesExamples - I can imagine the flood of phone calls to the local association and hear the muttered curses and imprecations of massed wheelers and dealers.
- The syndicalists despised equally the opportunistic orgmen of the parties and the breezy, compromising wheelers and dealers of business.
- Three officers spent months working as wheeler-dealers on a market, paying the thieves for mobile phones they had stolen from members of the public.
- He's an example of India's emerging urban middleclass - the wheeler and dealer with a mobile phone.
- You are a classic buy-to-let merchant, otherwise known as a wheeler-dealer.
- The Algerian wheeler-dealer was on the run from the law last week, his business empire in ruins.
- For we have had enough of political wheeler-dealers.
- The game provides such wheelers and dealers with a profile that would not be forthcoming were they to hook up with similarly sized businesses outside of it.
- This gives you the feeling of actually being there, out there amongst the dusty border towns, amidst the rocks and the hard places, with the wheeler-dealers in shanty tea-stalls.
- Exclusive Some start-ups are comprised of wide-eyed wheelers and dealers with little technical expertise.
- So his stunt was to prove to his family just what a sharp wheeler-dealer he normally was during office hours.
- The Burnley boss has been an astute wheeler and dealer in the loan market this season, but again finds his resources stretched to the limit for the forthcoming double-header.
- He agreed with Pareto that universal suffrage promoted the corrupt and devious political skills of the flatterer, the wheeler-dealer, and the populist demagogue.
- Would you believe these shrewd, profit-minded wheeler-dealers are pocketing a whopping 100 per cent of the profits on the sales of those puppies?!
- That said, as a kid I was already a wheeler-dealer.
- Once a pure and sincere member of the literati, he is now a superb wheeler-dealer in Shanghai's real estate market.
- By picture's end, Shaw has to navigate a thicket of Chinese organized crime figures, politicos and wheeler-dealers - plus his own traitorous colleagues - to save the day and, not incidentally, his own neck.
- He is a general wheeler-dealer, and has dabbled in building materials, engineering and property.
- Then she hosted cocktail parties for high-flying business men and low crawling wheelers and dealers, one of whom managed to deal the pair right out of their boat.
- He could be brash, streetwise, a wheeler-dealer and charming.
Synonyms mediator, arbitrator, arbiter, moderator, go-between, middleman, intermediary, intercessor, interceder, intervener, conciliator
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