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词组 gazump
释义 gazump
verb
  1. to raise the selling price of a property after agreeing the terms of sale; hence to outbid an agreed sale UK, 1971
    A specialisation of the sense “to swindle”.
    • The network fears the net could gazump it by offering video to the US audience before NBC gets round to its “live” package. — The Guardian, 14 September 2000
    • “I was gazumped,” she said. “I was really upset about it. I knew it went on, but I never thought it would happen to me.” — The Observer, 14 April 2002
  2. to swindle UK, 1928
    • I watched two homies [men] gazumping the joskins [country bumpkins][.] — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 61, 1954
    • — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 146, 1992
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