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wheelings and dealings

wheelings and dealings is the plural of wheeling and dealing.

Meaning of wheeling and dealing

Noun

wheeling and dealing (countable and uncountable, plural wheelings and dealings)

  1. The activity of working as an intermediary, making a profit from buying and selling things, or making contracts between parties.
    • Broadway vet Stewart is the only person enjoying themselves on-camera, rattling off soliloquies about the virtues of capitalism and explaining his wheelings and dealings while guns are pointed in his direction and bombs detonate in the background.2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2019

Questions about wheelings and dealings

What is wheelings and dealings the plural of?
Wheelings and dealings is the plural of wheeling and dealing.

Words near wheelings and dealings in the dictionary

  1. wheeling out
  2. wheeling round
  3. Wheelingite
  4. wheelingly
  5. wheelings
  6. wheelings and dealings
  7. wheelless
  8. wheellessness
  9. wheellike
  10. wheellock
  11. wheellocks

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