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Wheeler-dealer

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator. informal

    "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."

Etymology

From wheel and deal, equivalent to wheel + -er + deal + -er.

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