wheeler-dealer
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wheeler-dealer
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From wheel and deal, equivalent to wheel + -er + deal + -er.
noun wheeler-dealers · wheeler dealer · wheelerdealer
- A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator. Seated at separate tables to underscore their differing levels of involvement with indicted savings and loan wheeler-dealer Charles Keating, the five were fighting to regain reputations earned in a lifetime of public service.
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noun political or commercial schemer
| Español | chueco |
|---|---|
| Français | affairiste, arnaqueur, charlatan |
| Deutsch | Geschäftemacher, Geschäftemacherin |
| Italiano | faccendiere, intrallazzatore, macchinatore |
| Русский | махина́тор maxinátor |
| עברית | עַסְקוּנָה 'askunah |
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