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单词 gazump
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gazump
verb[Toften passive]
UKinformal
uk
/ɡəˈzʌmp/us
/ɡəˈzʌmp/
torefusetosellahousethat you own to someone you haveagreedtosellit to, and tosellitinsteadto someone whoofferstopaymore for it:
（房价议定后因有人出价更高而向买主）食言毁约
Sally'sofferfor thehousehas beenaccepted, but she'sworriedshe might be gazumped.萨莉出的房价卖主接受了，但是她担心若有更高的出价卖主会食言毁约。
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(Definition ofgazumpfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

gazump| Business English

gazump
verb[Tusually passive]
PROPERTY
uk
/ɡəˈzʌmp/us
torefusetosellahousethat you own to someone you haveagreedtosellit to, and tosellitinsteadto someone whoofferstopaymore for it:
Sally'sofferfor thehousehas beenaccepted, but she'sworriedshe might be gazumped.
(Definition ofgazumpfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgazump

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I entirely agree that providing information electronically will speed up conveyancing and reduce the opportunities for gazumping.
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They were then gazumped by the local authority, which bought it for £900 more.
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How many more people will be gazumped in the coming year or two, before even his modest proposals take effect?
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The question of gazumping was mentioned, and this too is important.
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One seller was just testing the market; another accepted a gazumping offer.
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The rented sector premium will become subject to the same kind of gazumping that applies to prices in the houses for sale market.
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The delays in procedures which permit gazumping are best dealt with by changes in practice.
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We believe the answer to the problems caused by gazumping lie in increasing transparency and speeding up the home buying and selling process.
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Effectively that motion has been gazumped by people queue-jumping by introducing a writ this morning.
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I have great sympathy with those who find themselves gazumped because of such practices.
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However, no schemes have found widespread support as methods of bringing gazumping to an end.
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Governments of both major parties have regretted the existence of gazumping in the past but, regrettably, they have done very little about it.
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I accept that he believes that by speeding up the process, gazumping will be less likely—he has just referred to that again.
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I agree that if people pay for structural surveys and building society surveys and then find that they are gazumped, such money is wasted.
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He can obtain no answer from the building firm about whether his plot will be gazumped.
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