Usually means: Facilitate smoother or easier progress.
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  1. grease the wheels: Merriam-Webster
  2. grease the wheels: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grease the wheels: Wiktionary
  4. grease the wheels: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grease the wheels: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grease the wheels: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Grease the wheels: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (grease the wheels)

verb:  (idiomatic) To create conditions likely to produce or hasten favorable future developments.

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