Usually means: Skillfully maneuvered or handled situation.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. finessed: Merriam-Webster
  2. finessed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. finessed: Wordnik
  4. finessed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. finessed: Wiktionary
  6. Finessed, finessed: Dictionary.com
  7. Finessed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Finessed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. finessed: FreeDictionary.org
  10. finessed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. finessed: Legal dictionary

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  1. finessed: Encyclopedia

(Note: See finesse as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (finesse)

noun:  (uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
noun:  (uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.
noun:  (countable) An adroit manoeuvre.
noun:  (countable, card games) In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, politics) To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation.
verb:  (intransitive, card games) To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
verb:  (transitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse.
verb:  (intransitive, croquet, obsolete) To play a ball out of the way of an opponent.
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