gazumps
Meaning of gazumps
verb, 3rd person present
- 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
- 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 gazumps
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of gazumps is: gazump.
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Hyphenation of gazumps
gazumps
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- gazumps is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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