finagle

verbB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

finagles

V_ing/Gerund

finagling

V_ed/pp

finagledfinangle

1.
(transitive)To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
finagle a day off work
Đồng nghĩa: fainaigue, wangle
2.
(transitive)To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught
Đồng nghĩa: fainaigue, wangle
3.
(ambitransitive)To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

fainaiguewangle game

Cùng gốc / liên quan

finagler

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Nguồn gốc từ

Americanism from the 1920s, perhaps combining an alteration of fainaigue (to renege) with the suffix -le, possibly influenced by inveigle; compare haggle.