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单词 wheeling and dealing
释义

wheeling and dealing

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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.
    • 2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club:
      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.

Verb

wheeling and dealing

  1. present participle of wheel and deal
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