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gazumping

verb

Meaning

  1. To swindle; to extort.
  2. To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
  3. To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
  4. To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
  5. The act of one who gazumps.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data