gazump
verb/ɡəˈzʌmp/
/ɡəˈzʌmp/
[usually passive] (British English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they gazump | /ɡəˈzʌmp/ /ɡəˈzʌmp/ |
| he / she / it gazumps | /ɡəˈzʌmps/ /ɡəˈzʌmps/ |
| past simple gazumped | /ɡəˈzʌmpt/ /ɡəˈzʌmpt/ |
| past participle gazumped | /ɡəˈzʌmpt/ /ɡəˈzʌmpt/ |
| -ing form gazumping | /ɡəˈzʌmpɪŋ/ /ɡəˈzʌmpɪŋ/ |
- gazump somebody when somebody who has made an offer to pay a particular price for a house and who has had this offer accepted is gazumped, their offer is no longer accepted by the person selling the house, because somebody else has made a higher offerTopics Houses and homesc2Word Origin1920s (originally meaning to swindle someone): from Yiddish gezumph ‘overcharge’. The current sense dates from the 1970s.
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