Definition of gazump in English:

gazump

verb ɡəˈzʌmpɡəˈzəmp

[with object]British informal

1Make a higher offer for a house than (someone whose offer has already been accepted by the seller) and thus succeed in acquiring the property.
（房主已接受别人价格后）报出更高价格并购得（房屋）
the trio are fuming after they were gazumped by a property speculator
gazumping has returned, as there is a shortage of good properties
Example sentencesExamples
- I note his extremely powerful debut in the house earlier today when he gazumped the Finance Minister!
- Anyone who's experienced a slow and miserable house purchase or sale, or has been gazumped, will no doubt believe there must be a better process.
- He said: ‘We feel a bit gazumped by this.’
- The carriage office has a team of officers which patrols the centre of Dublin at weekends in an effort to stamp out unofficial ranks and gazumping by cab drivers.
- The advantages of this are that I am less likely to be gazumped and the vendors don't have to pay agents' fees - which, in theory, means they can offer the place at a more palatable price.
- National has yet to announce its tax cuts, and Labour will need a sizable policy in reserve if it wants to gazump them too.
- Can the group of all male plumbers plumb the depths of their minds to achieve a good result or will the estate agents gazump them?
- It is unacceptable that a department would gazump a voluntary body.
- That committee finally reported last Friday, but the Government had already gazumped it.
- The medium really did seem in danger of gazumping the message.
- Those concerns include problems such as gazumping, unrealistic guide prices, inaccurate property information and perceptions that ‘phantom bidders’ are employed to force buyers to raise their bids.
- It is extremely frustrating to think you are winning an auction, only to find you have been gazumped in the last few minutes.
- You would have thought that when the yarn didn't make it into print on Sunday, he would have thanked his lucky stars and whipped out a statement to gazump anything else.
- That policy was just to gazump what the National Party had offered, I might say.
- Yes, it sounds as if the modern digital cellular service has already gazumped the WiFi network idea.
- Whereas gazumping gave sellers the upper hand, allowing them to accept 11 th hour bids above the original offer, gazundering turns the tables on them.
- Whether or not gazumping is still practiced, though, it is important to bear in mind that buyers have no rights whatsoever if they find themselves gazumped before a contract has been signed.
- "It's a bit like buying a house, and we could still get gazumped."
- That well and truly gazumps the bid of $36.80.
- Indubitably we should learn from the mistakes of the 1980s and not allow gazumping to be part of modern house-buying negotiations.
2dated Swindle (someone)
〈古〉欺诈
I gazumped a friend of mine with complete success last night
昨晚我成功地骗了我的一位朋友。
Example sentencesExamples
- Amidst the saccharine clichés, there are lots of uncomfortable moments as she ponders gazumping her client.
Synonyms
defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed

Derivatives

gazumper

noun

To ward off gazumpers and make vendors feel morally bound to proceed, hassle your mortgage company to arrange the survey and communicate regularly with solicitors and estate agents.
Example sentencesExamples
- Ward off gazumpers and make vendors feel morally bound to proceed, by keeping in touch with everyone involved.
- If the sale does go through and you are convinced the gazumpers are paying too much, then at least you have the consolation that they did not get a bargain!
- When prices are rising so quickly, there's plenty of room for a gazumper to step in and offer the buyer a better deal.
- In Britain we are the worst gazumpers in Europe, with about one in three buyers falling victim.

Origin

1920s (in sense 2): from Yiddish gezumph 'overcharge'. sense 1 dates from the 1970s.

These days we associate gazumping with the buying and selling of houses, a use that dates from the 1970s. It now means ‘to raise the price of a house after accepting an offer from a prospective buyer’, but in the early 20th century it simply meant ‘to swindle’, deriving from Yiddish gezumph ‘to overcharge’. In the late 1980s the opposite term gazunder (a combination of gazump and under) was coined to describe the practice of lowering the amount of an offer that the seller has already accepted while threatening to withdraw if the new offer is not accepted.

Rhymes

bump, chump, clump, crump, dump, flump, frump, grump, jump, lump, outjump, plump, pump, rump, scrump, slump, stump, sump, thump, trump, tump, ump, whump

Definition of gazump in US English:

gazump

verbɡəˈzəmpɡəˈzəmp

[with object]British informal

1(of a seller) raise the contracted price of a property after having informally accepted a lower offer (from an intending buyer)
the trio are fuming after they were gazumped by a property speculator
gazumping has returned, as there is a shortage of good properties
Example sentencesExamples
- I note his extremely powerful debut in the house earlier today when he gazumped the Finance Minister!
- National has yet to announce its tax cuts, and Labour will need a sizable policy in reserve if it wants to gazump them too.
- You would have thought that when the yarn didn't make it into print on Sunday, he would have thanked his lucky stars and whipped out a statement to gazump anything else.
- He said: ‘We feel a bit gazumped by this.’
- "It's a bit like buying a house, and we could still get gazumped."
- That well and truly gazumps the bid of $36.80.
- That committee finally reported last Friday, but the Government had already gazumped it.
- Those concerns include problems such as gazumping, unrealistic guide prices, inaccurate property information and perceptions that ‘phantom bidders’ are employed to force buyers to raise their bids.
- Anyone who's experienced a slow and miserable house purchase or sale, or has been gazumped, will no doubt believe there must be a better process.
- It is unacceptable that a department would gazump a voluntary body.
- It is extremely frustrating to think you are winning an auction, only to find you have been gazumped in the last few minutes.
- The medium really did seem in danger of gazumping the message.
- Indubitably we should learn from the mistakes of the 1980s and not allow gazumping to be part of modern house-buying negotiations.
- Yes, it sounds as if the modern digital cellular service has already gazumped the WiFi network idea.
- The carriage office has a team of officers which patrols the centre of Dublin at weekends in an effort to stamp out unofficial ranks and gazumping by cab drivers.
- Can the group of all male plumbers plumb the depths of their minds to achieve a good result or will the estate agents gazump them?
- Whether or not gazumping is still practiced, though, it is important to bear in mind that buyers have no rights whatsoever if they find themselves gazumped before a contract has been signed.
- Whereas gazumping gave sellers the upper hand, allowing them to accept 11 th hour bids above the original offer, gazundering turns the tables on them.
- That policy was just to gazump what the National Party had offered, I might say.
- The advantages of this are that I am less likely to be gazumped and the vendors don't have to pay agents' fees - which, in theory, means they can offer the place at a more palatable price.
2dated Swindle (someone)
〈古〉欺诈
I gazumped a friend of mine with complete success last night
昨晚我成功地骗了我的一位朋友。
Example sentencesExamples
- Amidst the saccharine clichés, there are lots of uncomfortable moments as she ponders gazumping her client.
Synonyms
defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed

Origin

1920s (in gazump (sense 2)): from Yiddish gezumph ‘overcharge’. gazump (sense 1) dates from the 1970s.

词汇	gazump
释义	Definition of gazump in English: gazump verb ɡəˈzʌmpɡəˈzəmp [with object]British informal 1Make a higher offer for a house than (someone whose offer has already been accepted by the seller) and thus succeed in acquiring the property. （房主已接受别人价格后）报出更高价格并购得（房屋） the trio are fuming after they were gazumped by a property speculator gazumping has returned, as there is a shortage of good properties Example sentencesExamples I note his extremely powerful debut in the house earlier today when he gazumped the Finance Minister! Anyone who's experienced a slow and miserable house purchase or sale, or has been gazumped, will no doubt believe there must be a better process. He said: ‘We feel a bit gazumped by this.’ The carriage office has a team of officers which patrols the centre of Dublin at weekends in an effort to stamp out unofficial ranks and gazumping by cab drivers. The advantages of this are that I am less likely to be gazumped and the vendors don't have to pay agents' fees - which, in theory, means they can offer the place at a more palatable price. National has yet to announce its tax cuts, and Labour will need a sizable policy in reserve if it wants to gazump them too. Can the group of all male plumbers plumb the depths of their minds to achieve a good result or will the estate agents gazump them? It is unacceptable that a department would gazump a voluntary body. That committee finally reported last Friday, but the Government had already gazumped it. The medium really did seem in danger of gazumping the message. Those concerns include problems such as gazumping, unrealistic guide prices, inaccurate property information and perceptions that ‘phantom bidders’ are employed to force buyers to raise their bids. It is extremely frustrating to think you are winning an auction, only to find you have been gazumped in the last few minutes. You would have thought that when the yarn didn't make it into print on Sunday, he would have thanked his lucky stars and whipped out a statement to gazump anything else. That policy was just to gazump what the National Party had offered, I might say. Yes, it sounds as if the modern digital cellular service has already gazumped the WiFi network idea. Whereas gazumping gave sellers the upper hand, allowing them to accept 11 th hour bids above the original offer, gazundering turns the tables on them. Whether or not gazumping is still practiced, though, it is important to bear in mind that buyers have no rights whatsoever if they find themselves gazumped before a contract has been signed. "It's a bit like buying a house, and we could still get gazumped." That well and truly gazumps the bid of $36.80. Indubitably we should learn from the mistakes of the 1980s and not allow gazumping to be part of modern house-buying negotiations. 2dated Swindle (someone) 〈古〉欺诈 I gazumped a friend of mine with complete success last night 昨晚我成功地骗了我的一位朋友。 Example sentencesExamples Amidst the saccharine clichés, there are lots of uncomfortable moments as she ponders gazumping her client. Synonyms defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed Derivatives gazumper noun To ward off gazumpers and make vendors feel morally bound to proceed, hassle your mortgage company to arrange the survey and communicate regularly with solicitors and estate agents. Example sentencesExamples Ward off gazumpers and make vendors feel morally bound to proceed, by keeping in touch with everyone involved. If the sale does go through and you are convinced the gazumpers are paying too much, then at least you have the consolation that they did not get a bargain! When prices are rising so quickly, there's plenty of room for a gazumper to step in and offer the buyer a better deal. In Britain we are the worst gazumpers in Europe, with about one in three buyers falling victim. Origin 1920s (in sense 2): from Yiddish gezumph 'overcharge'. sense 1 dates from the 1970s. These days we associate gazumping with the buying and selling of houses, a use that dates from the 1970s. It now means ‘to raise the price of a house after accepting an offer from a prospective buyer’, but in the early 20th century it simply meant ‘to swindle’, deriving from Yiddish gezumph ‘to overcharge’. In the late 1980s the opposite term gazunder (a combination of gazump and under) was coined to describe the practice of lowering the amount of an offer that the seller has already accepted while threatening to withdraw if the new offer is not accepted. Rhymes bump, chump, clump, crump, dump, flump, frump, grump, jump, lump, outjump, plump, pump, rump, scrump, slump, stump, sump, thump, trump, tump, ump, whump Definition of gazump in US English: gazump verbɡəˈzəmpɡəˈzəmp [with object]British informal 1(of a seller) raise the contracted price of a property after having informally accepted a lower offer (from an intending buyer) the trio are fuming after they were gazumped by a property speculator gazumping has returned, as there is a shortage of good properties Example sentencesExamples I note his extremely powerful debut in the house earlier today when he gazumped the Finance Minister! National has yet to announce its tax cuts, and Labour will need a sizable policy in reserve if it wants to gazump them too. You would have thought that when the yarn didn't make it into print on Sunday, he would have thanked his lucky stars and whipped out a statement to gazump anything else. He said: ‘We feel a bit gazumped by this.’ "It's a bit like buying a house, and we could still get gazumped." That well and truly gazumps the bid of $36.80. That committee finally reported last Friday, but the Government had already gazumped it. Those concerns include problems such as gazumping, unrealistic guide prices, inaccurate property information and perceptions that ‘phantom bidders’ are employed to force buyers to raise their bids. Anyone who's experienced a slow and miserable house purchase or sale, or has been gazumped, will no doubt believe there must be a better process. It is unacceptable that a department would gazump a voluntary body. It is extremely frustrating to think you are winning an auction, only to find you have been gazumped in the last few minutes. The medium really did seem in danger of gazumping the message. Indubitably we should learn from the mistakes of the 1980s and not allow gazumping to be part of modern house-buying negotiations. Yes, it sounds as if the modern digital cellular service has already gazumped the WiFi network idea. The carriage office has a team of officers which patrols the centre of Dublin at weekends in an effort to stamp out unofficial ranks and gazumping by cab drivers. Can the group of all male plumbers plumb the depths of their minds to achieve a good result or will the estate agents gazump them? Whether or not gazumping is still practiced, though, it is important to bear in mind that buyers have no rights whatsoever if they find themselves gazumped before a contract has been signed. Whereas gazumping gave sellers the upper hand, allowing them to accept 11 th hour bids above the original offer, gazundering turns the tables on them. That policy was just to gazump what the National Party had offered, I might say. The advantages of this are that I am less likely to be gazumped and the vendors don't have to pay agents' fees - which, in theory, means they can offer the place at a more palatable price. 2dated Swindle (someone) 〈古〉欺诈 I gazumped a friend of mine with complete success last night 昨晚我成功地骗了我的一位朋友。 Example sentencesExamples Amidst the saccharine clichés, there are lots of uncomfortable moments as she ponders gazumping her client. Synonyms defraud, cheat, trick, fleece, dupe, deceive, exploit, squeeze, milk, bleed Origin 1920s (in gazump (sense 2)): from Yiddish gezumph ‘overcharge’. gazump (sense 1) dates from the 1970s.
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