gazump

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To swindle; to extort.
2. fiil To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.

   “During the early 1970s however in a period of rapidly increasing house prices it came to appear unfavourable to buyers since it allowed the seller to ‘gazump’, that is to refuse to sign the formal contract unless the buyer would agree to an increased price.”

3. fiil To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.

   “We are first-time buyers going through the process of buying our first home in London. We had previously tried three years ago and were gazumped twice. We lost nearly £4,000 to surveyors and solicitors with no property to show for it at the end.”

4. fiil To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.

   “The tactic was to gazump the Labour Party and the FOL by a major restructuring of the tax system.”

5. isim The act of gazumping.
6. isim An automobile.

   “"Phoney" Thorpe, '06, and "Shorty" Winchester, '01, have been driving their "90 HP Gazumps" through the wilds of New Jersey, but otherwise keeping on the job.”

7. isim A politician who takes bribes.

   “This year's crop of "nite bloomin' wood-be mayors" includes such famous gazumps as Mac Hoyne, Tom Carey, Barney Mullaney, possibly Carter H., Wilhelm Thompson, and the devil knows who else.”