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wheel and deal

 
 
verb [I] informal COMMERCE, POLITICS

Definition

to try to make a profit or get an advantage using clever, complicated, and sometimes dishonest methods: He made a cool $500,000 before lunch wheeling and dealing in shares. He continued to wheel and deal with an almost singular focus on holding power.
(Definition of wheel and deal verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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