0 to succeed in getting or doing something by persuading someone or by being clever in some way:
1 to succeed in obtaining or doing something by not being completely honest in persuading someone to allow it:
I wangled an expense-account trip to New York.
I think that that is a fairly good "wangle" —quite a reasonable way of getting round a difficulty.
They know that they must wangle one of the drawings from somebody.
Is not there a bit of wangling now?
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.
Now, knowing that the workers have the vote, their game is to see how they can wangle so that they may get their votes.
They have wangled that by taking more account of economic factors in the indices for the elderly, residential care and social services.
Shopkeepers are therefore fully warned in future that they must "wangle" it.
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