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wheeler dealer

wheeler dealer is the alternative spelling of wheeler-dealer.

Meaning of wheeler-dealer

Noun

wheeler-dealer (plural wheeler-dealers)

  1. (informal) 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.1990 November 26, Ed Magnuson, Hays Gorey, “You Sold Your Office”, in Time

Forms of wheeler dealer

pluralwheeler dealers

Questions about wheeler dealer

What is wheeler dealer the alternative spelling of?
Wheeler dealer is the alternative spelling of wheeler-dealer.

Words near wheeler dealer in the dictionary

  1. wheeled out
  2. wheeled round
  3. wheeler
  4. wheeler and dealer
  5. Wheeler County
  6. wheeler dealer
  7. wheeler dealers
  8. Wheeler Heights
  9. Wheeler's bluegrass
  10. wheeler-dealer
  11. wheeler-dealers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheeler dealer (page history and authors); wheeler-dealer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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