0 past simple and past participle of wangle
1 to succeed in getting or doing something by persuading someone or by being clever in some way:
It is introducing a new principle as regards compensation, which can be very easily wangled by any owner who wishes to do so.
It can be wangled in every sort of way.
They have wangled that by taking more account of economic factors in the indices for the elderly, residential care and social services.
I have little doubt that expense accounts are "wangled".
Figures have been read out to-night and there has not been any attempt to disprove them, although they have been "wangled" a bit.
They have something that they really believe in, and they cannot be wangled out of it by some trick solution which everybody sees through.
The way in which the voting was "wangled" did not give them the opportunity.
Up to the early 1980s, the service's success tended to be measured by how big a budget could be wangled from the centre and how quickly it could be spent.
