English-Finnish translations for finagle

Definition of finagle

• To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts
• To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery
• To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object

Examples

• finagle a day off work
• finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught
• shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes

Related words

• financial
• final
• finale
• financing
• finance
• finally
• financially
• financier
• financer
• finalist