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gazump

 verb
     
Related topics: Business Basics
ga‧zump [transitive usually passive]
British English informalBB if you are gazumped, the person who is selling you a house sells it to another person who offers them more money:
We were gazumped at the last minute.
—gazumping noun [uncountable]
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