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wheelerdealer

wheelerdealer 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 wheelerdealer

pluralwheelerdealers

Questions about wheelerdealer

What is wheelerdealer the alternative spelling of?
Wheelerdealer is the alternative spelling of wheeler-dealer.

Words near wheelerdealer in the dictionary

  1. wheeler-dealer
  2. wheeler-dealers
  3. wheeler-dealing
  4. Wheeler-DeWitt equation
  5. Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory
  6. wheelerdealer
  7. wheelerdealers
  8. Wheelerian
  9. wheeleries
  10. wheelerite
  11. wheelers

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