gazump

Meaning of gazump

verb
  1. make a higher offer for a house than (someone whose offer has already been accepted by the seller) and thus succeed in acquiring the property.
    the trio are fuming after they were gazumped by a property speculator
    gazumping has returned, as there is a shortage of good properties
  2. swindle (someone).
    I gazumped a friend of mine with complete success last night

1920s (in gazump (sense 2)): from Yiddish gezumph ‘overcharge’. gazump (sense 1) dates from the 1970s.

Information about gazump

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of gazump is: gazumps.
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Hyphenation of gazump

gazump

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • gazump is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

gazump synonyms

Meaning overcharge:

overcharge, soak, surcharge, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook

Words that rhyme with gazump

No rhymes for gazump found