Gazump in a sentence

Gazump 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.

Using Gazump

• The main meaning on this page is: To swindle; to extort. | To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one. | To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
• Useful related words include: cheat, rip off, chisel, hook.
• In the example corpus, gazump often appears in combinations such as: to gazump.

Context around Gazump

• Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
• Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
• Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

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Corpus analysis for Gazump

• In this selection, "gazump" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
• Around the word, fox stand out and add context to how "gazump" is used.
• Recognizable usage signals include attempt to gazump that bid and seeking to gazump fox as. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
• By corpus frequency, "gazump" sits close to words such as aabb, aabria and aacha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.