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In England and Wales, buying a house is slow, and a spoken yes is often not yet a hard legal promise. If you are gazumped, the seller has already said they will sell to you, and you may have spent money on checks and papers — then someone else offers more, and the seller takes that offer instead. It is usually legal, which is why people get so angry about it: it feels like a cheat even when the law still allows it. You hear the word in British news and among people buying homes; Americans generally do not use it. It happens most when prices are jumping up. People sometimes stretch it to other deals where a better offer steals the sale, but the real home of the word is houses. The person who loses the house is gazumped; the seller gazumps them.
加價搶屋（英國買屋用語；在最後簽約前賣家改賣給出更高價的人）
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gazumpverb詞源 1/ɡəˈzʌmp/
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To swindle; to extort.
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businessreal-estateTo raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
- If one believes that morality plays no part in such a transaction, and that the law is all that prevails, then I believe society is the poorer. Clearly no surveyor refuses to act for a client who gazumps — but while the practice is legal it can hardly be described as moral, and the position of the surveyor is far from clear.
- 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.
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businessreal-estateTo buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
- I can disclose that Mrs Blair had an offer of £2,765,000 accepted on a five-storey Georgian house in a fashionable area of central London, which she planned to give to daughter Kathryn.¶ However, actress Talulah Riley, 31, who played spoiled Annabelle Fritton in two St Trinian’s films, gazumped her with an offer of £3 million — a staggering £235,000 more than the asking price.
- 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.
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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.
- Just as Whymper effectively gazumps Mr Stone in taking credit for the Knights Companion scheme for ambitious ends, so too does this dangerous, multicultural, overcrowded version of London seem to be displacing the colonial fantasy of England by the novel's conclusion.
gazumpnoun詞源 1/ɡəˈzʌmp/
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businessreal-estateThe act of gazumping.
gazumpnoun詞源 2/ɡəˈzʌmp/
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datedslangAn 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.
- Go out and hire the finest gazump that ever burned benzine.
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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.
- Go fifty-fifty. / If they nail you call in a mouthpiece. / Fix it, you gazump, you slant-head, fix it. / Feed 'em. …
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。