Dictionary entry

Wheeler-dealer

Pronunciation: /wiːləˈdiːlə/

Pronunciation

/wiːləˈdiːlə/

Myanmar Meaning

ပွဲစားလူလည်။

Definition

wheeler-dealer /wi:lǝ 'di:lǝ(r)/ n ( infml ) ပြဲစားလူလည္။

Examples

  1. ‘The syndicalists despised equally the opportunistic orgmen of the parties and the breezy
  2. compromising wheelers and dealers of business.’
  3. ‘Exclusive Some start-ups are comprised of wide-eyed wheelers and dealers with little technical expertise.’
  4. ‘Once a pure and sincere member of the literati
  5. he is now a superb wheeler-dealer in Shanghai's real estate market.’
  6. ‘The Burnley boss has been an astute wheeler and dealer in the loan market this season
  7. but again finds his resources stretched to the limit for the forthcoming double-header.’
  8. ‘By picture's end
  9. Shaw has to navigate a thicket of Chinese organized crime figures
  10. politicos and wheeler-dealers - plus his own traitorous colleagues - to save the day and
  11. not incidentally
  12. his own neck.’
  13. ‘Would you believe these shrewd
  14. profit-minded wheeler-dealers are pocketing a whopping 100 per cent of the profits on the sales of those puppies?!’
  15. ‘For we have had enough of political wheeler-dealers.’
  16. ‘Then she hosted cocktail parties for high-flying business men and low crawling wheelers and dealers
  17. one of whom managed to deal the pair right out of their boat.’
  18. ‘I can imagine the flood of phone calls to the local association and hear the muttered curses and imprecations of massed wheelers and dealers.’
  19. ‘You are a classic buy-to-let merchant
  20. otherwise known as a wheeler-dealer.’
  21. ‘So his stunt was to prove to his family just what a sharp wheeler-dealer he normally was during office hours.’
  22. ‘He's an example of India's emerging urban middleclass - the wheeler and dealer with a mobile phone.’
  23. ‘He agreed with Pareto that universal suffrage promoted the corrupt and devious political skills of the flatterer
  24. the wheeler-dealer
  25. and the populist demagogue.’
  26. ‘He could be brash
  27. streetwise
  28. a wheeler-dealer and charming.’
  29. ‘The Algerian wheeler-dealer was on the run from the law last week
  30. his business empire in ruins.’
  31. ‘He is a general wheeler-dealer
  32. and has dabbled in building materials
  33. engineering and property.’
  34. ‘Three officers spent months working as wheeler-dealers on a market
  35. paying the thieves for mobile phones they had stolen from members of the public.’
  36. ‘The game provides such wheelers and dealers with a profile that would not be forthcoming were they to hook up with similarly sized businesses outside of it.’
  37. ‘This gives you the feeling of actually being there
  38. out there amongst the dusty border towns
  39. amidst the rocks and the hard places
  40. with the wheeler-dealers in shanty tea-stalls.’
  41. ‘That said
  42. as a kid I was already a wheeler-dealer.’