finaglers

fi·na·gle (f

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v. fi·na·gled, fi·na·gling, fi·na·gles Informal

v.tr.

1. To obtain or achieve by indirect, usually deceitful methods: finagle a day off from work.

2. To cheat; swindle: shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.

v.intr.

To use crafty, deceitful methods.

[Probably from dialectal fainaigue, to cheat.]

fi·nagler n.

finagle [fɪˈneɪg^əl]

vb Informal

1. (tr) to get or achieve by trickery, craftiness, or persuasion; wangle

2. to use trickery or craftiness on (a person)

[probably changed from dialect fainaigue]

finagler n

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Verb

finagle - achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods

wangle, manage

achieve, attain, accomplish, reach - to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"

Translations

finagle

vt (inf) → deichseln (inf); to finagle something out of somebody → jdm etw abluchsen; to finagle one’s way out of something → sich aus einer Sache herausmogeln

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When the financial finaglers and their friends in the conservative camp catch their breath, the screaming will be loud and long: It's unconstitutional

OBAMA'S FINANCE REFORM: KEEP EYE ON CONGRESS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

One way the financial finaglers got away with their derivative schemes was I to keep it all so complicated that the normal citizen, and congressperson, remained baffled and silent.

Fisheries failures loom again by Wickstrom, Karl / Florida Sportsman

In an effort to cover the crime, most financial finaglers talk more than they should.

When the IRS Travels in Pairs, It's Double Trouble by Siegler, Sylvan; Weiner, Stanley P. / The National Public Accountant

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