Usually means: Coercing someone using pressure, persuasion.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word arm-twisting:

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  1. arm-twisting: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. arm-twisting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arm-twisting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. arm-twisting, arm-twisting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. arm-twisting: Vocabulary.com
  6. arm-twisting: Wordnik
  7. arm-twisting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. arm-twisting: Wiktionary
  9. arm-twisting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. arm-twisting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. arm-twisting: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. arm-twisting: Dictionary.com
  13. arm-twisting: Rhymezone
  14. arm-twisting: Free Dictionary
  15. arm-twisting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. arm-twisting: Dictionary/thesaurus
  17. arm-twisting: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arm-twisting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arm-twisting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arm-twisting: Medical dictionary

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noun:  The use of personal pressure to persuade
noun:  The use of political pressure to gain support

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