Gazump

Quick meaning: Gazump is a verb meaning (British) To swindle; to extort.

Meaning

(British) To swindle; to extort.

More Meanings

1. (British, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
2. (British, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
3. (British, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
4. (British, Australia, real estate) The act of gazumping.
5. (US, slang, dated) An automobile.
6. A politician who takes bribes.

Example Sentences

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

Fianna Fáil lost the 1948 general election to Fine Gael (as Cumann na Gael were now known), who proceeded to gazump the Republican credentials by leaving the British Commonwealth and officially declaring the Free State a republic.

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.

Birmingham's teen sensation Jude Bellingham is nearing a move to Borussia Dortmund, according to reports in Germany.¶ Manchester United and Chelsea have been strongly linked with the 16-year-old but are set to be gazumped by the Bundesliga giants.

Word Forms

• gazumps
• gazumping
• gazumped
• gazoomph
• gazumph

Synonyms for gazump

Depending on context, synonyms include plume, fleece, hook, pluck, surcharge, rob.

Antonyms for gazump

Common opposites include undercharge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rob, overcharge, pluck, surcharge, soak, hook.

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