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    Gazumping is the name of the act: a house seller accepts a higher offer after already agreeing, in a loose way, to sell to you. Newspapers in Britain talk about gazumping when the market is hot and buyers keep trying to jump the queue with more money. It is not a separate idea from gazump; it is the same story told as a thing that happens, not as a verb. People treat it as unfair even when it is legal, because the first buyer has often already paid for surveys and legal work. You will not hear this much in American English. When prices fall, the mirror problem is more likely to be , not gazumping.

    加價搶屋(指這種行為本身)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成gazump + -ing, the act of gazumping.

同家族的字

  • gazumpgazumping is the -ing form of the same verb
  • gazunderthe opposite trick: the buyer later offers less, not more

原始詞典資料2 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。

gazumpingnoun

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    The act of one who gazumps.

    • The year had been a record one for industrial disputes, for muggings and for gazumpings.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。