How To Use Gazump In A Sentence
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But rival channel Five gazumped the terrestrial rights, forcing the BBC to look elsewhere for shows to plug the gap.
Ramsey Street casts a long shadow
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But the fire in Manchester City's pocket rages on nonetheless, and in a demented fluster they will convince Benfica to take £35m for moderate midfielder Ramires and then gazump Chelsea by offering £25m for the £15m-rated Santos striker Neymar.
Football transfer rumours: Raúl to Newcastle United?
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Yesterday, though, the word gazumping was once more heard passing the lips of that endangered species, the estate agent.
The Guardian World News
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Whereas gazumping gave sellers the upper hand, allowing them to accept 11 th hour bids above the original offer, gazundering turns the tables on them.
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Rents - and therefore rental yields - are on the rise and there is evidence of "gazumping" in major rental markets.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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On the upside, you can't be gazumped at the end of the buying process, like in the U.K.
A Buyer's Guide to France
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The script (co-written with fellow Boosh star Dave Brown) is almost entirely devoid of wit, featuring video clips of Eleanor swearing a lot about the glam-rock band Poison and of the moment – tenuously related to the show's groupie conceit – she was gazumped on Britain's Got Talent by Susan Boyle.
Rich Fulcher: An Evening with Eleanor, the Tour Whore
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All the tabloids have plants in each other's offices so that they can gazump each other's stories --- it's well known.
RESCUING ROSE
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Under the terms of a complicated and fraught negotiation, Chelsea had to pay £12mof his fee to a gazumped United, who will have felt a great deal less chagrined after Mikel's undistinguished performance here, one of many which have undermined the claims made on his behalf during his teenage years.
As Carlo Ancelotti looks set for Chelsea exit, who will replace him? | Richard Williams
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Yes, it sounds as if the modern digital cellular service has already gazumped the WiFi network idea.
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We are looking at providing a lock-out agreement that would, among other things, stop gazumping and gazundering.
Homebuying: A contract to keep the gazumpers from your door
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National has yet to announce its tax cuts, and Labour will need a sizable policy in reserve if it wants to gazump them too.
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Demand is severely outstripping supply and we are seeing the return of gazumping.
Times, Sunday Times
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The carriage office has a team of officers which patrols the centre of Dublin at weekends in an effort to stamp out unofficial ranks and gazumping by cab drivers.
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The medium really did seem in danger of gazumping the message.
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Home information packs Hips, introduced in 2007, were supposed to speed up the homebuying process and reduce gazumping and gazundering, where buyers threaten to pull out unless the price is reduced, by giving buyers further details about the home they hoped to buy.
Gazanging – the new menace facing potential homebuyers
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Whether or not gazumping is still practiced, though, it is important to bear in mind that buyers have no rights whatsoever if they find themselves gazumped before a contract has been signed.
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During the 1980s property boom, gazumping was common.
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All the tabloids have plants in each other's offices so that they can gazump each other's stories --- it's well known.
RESCUING ROSE
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He was a wonderful old boy who called me a couple of weeks later to tell me that a woman had tried to 'gazump' me," he says, pronouncing the word with a horrified Colonel Mustard accent.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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One would have thought that Cerner was aware of the failure of the contract to specify the necessary reporting module and so it appears to be a form of gazumping, that is, effectively raising the price of the sale after final offers have been accepted," he said.
ZDNET.com.au
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Indubitably we should learn from the mistakes of the 1980s and not allow gazumping to be part of modern house-buying negotiations.
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During the 1980s property boom, gazumping was common.
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It is extremely frustrating to think you are winning an auction, only to find you have been gazumped in the last few minutes.
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The advantages of this are that I am less likely to be gazumped and the vendors don't have to pay agents' fees - which, in theory, means they can offer the place at a more palatable price.
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And this low esteem does not derive only from periodic complaints over gazumping.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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It's called "gazumping" in England, the process by which someone selling a piece of property accepts an offer from one buyer, maybe even going so far as to shake hands on it, then quickly — and often surreptitiously — accepts another, higher, offer from a second buyer, leaving the first buyer with his pockets agape and his heart broken.
Philocrites: One thing you don't learn in seminary.
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Amidst the saccharine clichés, there are lots of uncomfortable moments as she ponders gazumping her client.
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Sally's offer for the house has been accepted, but she's worried she might be gazumped.
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That well and truly gazumps the bid of $36.80.
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Park underwent a medical at Lille before Arsenal moved to gazump the French champions on Saturday.
Evening Standard - Home
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As anyone who has ever been gazumped, gazundered or gaziddled can attest, being cheated out of the property on which you've set your heart is enough to make anyone think bad thoughts, though I'd like to believe not many of us would go as far as Josie in the disembowelling and penis-lopping stakes.
Why aren't more slasher movies set in blocks of flats?
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Wong's "gazumping" of Peter Garrett as climate change minister was an "opportunistic, deliberately cruel attempt" by Rudd to sideline anyone in the Party with talent to burn, with Garrett's "invisible anguish" over the Gunns pulp mill likely to force him from federal politics before the next election.
Crikey » Canberra Calling
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Collapsing chains, abortive fees, gazundering, gazumping and hidden mortgage penalties can prove ruinously expensive and emotionally devastating.
Archive 2009-01-01
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We were gazumped at the last minute.
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Sally's offer for the house has been accepted, but she's worried she might be gazumped.
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At the time, analysts at Cazenove said BlackRock in effect gazumped Macquarie, which had reportedly agreed to lease Drapers Gardens for 20 years at £43 a square foot, with a four-year rent-free period.
Upturn in commercial property may have run its course
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That policy was just to gazump what the National Party had offered, I might say.
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United are also pondering a £12m move for Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, with their vastly wealthier rivals Manchester City and Chelsea likely to gazump any effort Alex Ferguson makes to secure the signature of the 26-year-old German international.
Football transfer rumours: Liverpool to sign Johan Elmander?
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In the programme 'Buyer Beware', Primetime Investigates outlined some serious problems encountered by buyers, sellers and householders, including: bidding against themselves as estate agents make up fake prices to push up the price of a property, fake bidders being used in auctions, high fees being charged for services by property management agencies and 'gazumping', where sellers renege on a sale agreement and then sell for a higher price.
Politics.ie
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First came the abortive attempt in 1999 by the Bank of Scotland to take over the much larger NatWest, only to be gazumped by its local rival the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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I note his extremely powerful debut in the house earlier today when he gazumped the Finance Minister!
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During the 1980s property boom, gazumping was common.
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Estate agents may encourage "gazumping" by keeping a property on the market and carrying out viewings after an offer has been accepted in the hope of securing a higher bid.
Top stories from Times Online
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Curtis Sittenfeld is one of the finest novelists writing in America, best known for American Wife, in which she gazumped Laura Bush's life story.
Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire'
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THE Green Party leadership was accused yesterday of being "gazumped" by Fianna Fail over its failure to deliver a public inquiry into the banking crisis.
Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
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Photograph: Frank Baron schools are "gazumping" each other to attract the best pupils, research published today on school admissions has revealed.
The Guardian World News
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That committee finally reported last Friday, but the Government had already gazumped it.
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As anyone who has ever been gazumped, gazundered or gaziddled can attest, being cheated out of the property on which you've set your heart is enough to make anyone think bad thoughts, though I'd like to believe not many of us would go as far as Josie in the disembowelling and penis-lopping stakes.
Why aren't more slasher movies set in blocks of flats?
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The Sun Bombs, executions, poverty... welcome to Anzhi FC, Mr Eto'o - 2 hrs ago United gazump Chelsea's swap for 'outstanding' winger - reports - 16 hrs ago TalkSport Man United after Juventus ace - 17 hrs ago The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
BBC News - Home
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Anyone who's experienced a slow and miserable house purchase or sale, or has been gazumped, will no doubt believe there must be a better process.
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I feel the whole practice of gazumping completely unfair and underhand.
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Gazumping and gazundering sound contagious - do I really want to buy a flat?
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State schools are trying to "gazump" each other as they fight to attract the best pupils, research suggests today.
Evening Standard - Home
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During the 1980s property boom, gazumping was common.
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Can the group of all male plumbers plumb the depths of their minds to achieve a good result or will the estate agents gazump them?
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Whereas gazumping gave sellers the upper hand, allowing them to accept 11 th hour bids above the original offer, gazundering turns the tables on them.
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It is unacceptable that a department would gazump a voluntary body.
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After gazumping and gazundering, the property market has identified a new danger for would-be homeowners: gazanging.
Gazanging – the new menace facing potential homebuyers
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Jones was already mulling over offers from Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur by the time United moved in and triggered the £16m release clause to gazump everyone.
Sir Alex Ferguson acts swiftly to gazump rival bidders for Phil Jones | Daniel Taylor
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He said: ‘We feel a bit gazumped by this.’
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Those concerns include problems such as gazumping, unrealistic guide prices, inaccurate property information and perceptions that ‘phantom bidders’ are employed to force buyers to raise their bids.
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"It's a bit like buying a house, and we could still get gazumped."
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A new home buying process offered by estate agents has been launched that claims make the process quicker, and prevent gazumping or gazundering with comparable costs to the conventional system.
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We have seen gazumping and houses going under offer in a day.
Times, Sunday Times
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In other words, Sittenfeld gazumped Bush on the telling of her life and told it not only better, but with surprising accuracy, considering she had never met her.
Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire'
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You would have thought that when the yarn didn't make it into print on Sunday, he would have thanked his lucky stars and whipped out a statement to gazump anything else.
