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If you are gazundered, someone has already agreed to buy your house, then — often very late — says they will only buy it for less than the price you both named. The seller is in a weak spot: they may have already promised money on their next home, so they swallow the cut rather than watch the whole sale die. It is the mirror of gazumping, and it shows up more when prices are sliding, not rising. British home stories and papers use it; it is informal but widely understood there. Though actually, in parts of northern England gazunder is also an old colloquial noun for a pot kept under the bed at night, from “goes under”. That is a different word with the same spelling. This entry is the house-price verb.
買家臨時殺價(英國賣屋用語;已講好價錢後又要少付)
組成A blend of gazump and under: the price is pushed under what was agreed.
同家族的字
- gazumpgazunder was made from gazump plus under
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。
gazunderverb詞源 1/ɡəˈzʌn.də/
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To swindle by making an offer on a property under the false pretense of good faith but then reducing the offer (normally just before contracts are exchanged), knowing that the threat of collapsing the property chain is likely to force the seller into accepting the amount of loss that they were cheated out of.
gazundernoun詞源 2/ɡəˈzʌn.də/
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A chamber pot.
- While Frank and Walt and Lou and Tommy had looked on, their mam had filled the guzunder up to its rim with a grotesque and undiscriminating mix of spirits […].
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。