wheeler-dealer
1wheeler-dealer — (also wheeler and dealer) ► NOUN ▪ a person who engages in commercial or political scheming. DERIVATIVES wheeler dealing noun …
2wheeler dealer — UK US noun [C] INFORMAL ► COMMERCE someone who makes clever, complicated, and sometimes dishonest business arrangements: »He was a wheeler dealer who bought and sold items at flea markets …
3wheeler-dealer — wheeler dealers N COUNT (disapproval) If you refer to someone, especially in business or politics, as a wheeler dealer, you disapprove of the way that they try to succeed or to get what they want, often by dishonest or unfair methods …
4wheeler-dealer — n someone who does a lot of complicated, often dishonest deals, especially in business or politics …
5wheeler-dealer — ☆ wheeler dealer [hwē′lər dē′lər, wē′lər dēl′ər ] n. Slang a person who wheels and deals: see WHEEL AND DEAL: (at WHEEL) …
6wheeler-dealer — UK [ˌwiːlə(r) ˈdiːlə(r)] / US [ˌwɪlər ˈdɪlər] / US [ˌhwɪlər ˈdɪlər] noun [countable] Word forms wheeler dealer : singular wheeler dealer plural wheeler dealers informal someone who uses clever or slightly dishonest methods to get advantages from… …
7wheeler-dealer — dealing deal‧ing [ˈdiːlɪŋ] noun 1. [uncountable] FINANCE the job or activity of buying and selling stocks, shares, foreign currencies etc on a financial market; = TRADING AmE: • After the first hour of dealing, the FTSE had slipped 10.1 to 3025.3 …
8wheeler-dealer — a person who is good at making sales and deals, a wheeler dealer Cliff is a wheeler dealer in the energy industry. He brings buyers and sellers together …
9wheeler-dealer — n. someone who bargains aggressively. (See also wheel and deal.) □ She has turned into a real wheeler dealer. □ Who’s the wheeler dealer who set up this deal? …
10wheeler-dealer — noun A shrewd and often unscrupulous person who advances his own interests by scheming; a hustler. Seated at separate tables to underscore their differing levels of involvement with indicted savings and loan wheeler dealer Charles Keating, the… …
