Definition of "gazump" [gazump]

To swindle; to extort. (verb)
To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one. (verb)
To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer. (verb)
To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create. (verb)
An automobile. (noun)

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Use "gazump" in a sentence

""He was a wonderful old boy who called me a couple of weeks later to tell me that a woman had tried to 'gazump' me," he says, pronouncing the word with a horrified Colonel Mustard accent."
"State schools are trying to "gazump" each other as they fight to attract the best pupils, research suggests today."
"Jones was already mulling over offers from Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur by the time United moved in and triggered the £16m release clause to gazump everyone."

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