Definition of "wheeler-dealer" []

• Informal One who advances one's own interests by canny, aggressive, or unscrupulous behavior. (noun)

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• "He played a wheeler-dealer in the Blake Edwards comedy "Operation Petticoat" (1959) with Grant and in "Captain Newman, M.D." (1963) with Gregory Peck."
• "Flores is somewhat more of a wheeler-dealer than his peers."
• "A wheeler-dealer like Shaymiev could fly to Moscow with pictures of the Tatar nationalists demonstrating in Kazan and warn that things might slip out of control if he was not given more room for maneuver and cash to subsidize depressed enterprises."