gazumped

gazumped

美 　英 [ɡ?'z?mp]

• n.欺詐
• v.向…抬價敲詐(尤指房屋議定價格后再抬價)

詞形變化

過去分詞：gazumped  現在分詞：gazumping  第三人稱單數：gazumps  

英漢解釋

v.	1. 向...抬價敲詐(尤指房屋議定價格后再抬價)
n.	1. 欺詐,敲詐

英英解釋

v.	1. to reject a previously agreed offer to buy a property after receiving a better offer from another buyer 2. to subject somebody to a swindle 3. if you are gazumped, someone who had agreed to sell their house to you sells it to someone else for more money
n.	1. an act of swindling or overcharging somebody

例句

Everton have been monitoring Owen's potential availability but were informed that they had effectively been gazumped.

埃弗頓也一直在觀察歐文是否值得買入，但后來被告知價錢要變了。

We shan't be buying the house: we've been gazumped (by the owner).

我們不想買那所房子了，賣主變卦要敲詐我們。