# grease the wheels

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To create conditions likely to produce or hasten favorable future developments.

## Etymology
By a metaphor in which facilitating human socioeconomic interaction, or any other process or system, is portrayed as lubricating machinery; in this regard, compare also lubrication payment and social lubricant.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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