wheeling and dealing

noun

The activity of working as an intermediary, making a profit from buying and selling things, or making contracts between parties.

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Meanings

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

plural wheelings and dealings

  1. countableuncountableThe 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
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of wheel and deal

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
wheeler-dealing
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APA

wheeling and dealing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheeling%20and%20dealing

MLA

“wheeling and dealing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheeling%20and%20dealing. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wheeling and dealing,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheeling%20and%20dealing.

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