The word "gazump" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb meaning "to force (a seller) to accept a higher offer for a piece of property already under contract by a buyer" (Merriam-Webster). Example sentence: The greedy landlord tried to gazump the hapless buyer by offering a higher price for the property.
Spurs retain an interest and may choose to gazump Chelsea, as they did when signing Steven Pienaar from Everton in January.
Last week saw Wandle Housing Association – funded by the state – forced into an embarrassing U-turn after it attempted to gazump its own customers by hiking the price of flats it had agreed to sell on a shared ownership basis to first-time buyers.
Shorten did not directly answer a question about whether the fuel excise offer was motivated by Labor's desire to gazump the Greens after the pension deal.
If a keen bidder is committing upwards of £2.5m, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that he would spend a little more to investigate his competitors' intentions and gazump them.
And who knows, perhaps they will also strive again to baffle Mesut Ozil, whom they passed over two weeks ago before attempting to gazump Arsenal for him on the last day, when they were foiled by Arsène Wenger's polyglotism, as the Frenchman was able to sweet-talk Ozil in fluent German while instructing United to flip off in effing perfect English.
One head teacher, who asked to remain anonymous, said the shortage of maths teachers was so acute that schools were being forced to "gazump" rival schools to try to recruit the best candidates.
Two months later, as panic consumed the markets, it gazumped Citigroup to acquire Wachovia, which had been assembled over decades of costly and disruptive mergers.
She would, of course, have to learn a few simple phrases: "Next door was sold in a day"; "Do you know what they're asking for number 23?"; and "I was gazumped last week".For wherever middle-class Britons gather, sooner or later conversation is sure to turn to the value of their homes.
I would say that if a tenant has their references and the deposit ready and comes across as being on the ball, they are much less likely to be gazumped," says Mr Lewis.
Chisora was due to fight Wladimir Klitschko before being gazumped by Haye, and the fight could be revived if he wins.
From a legal standpoint, there is little that can be done to avoid being gazumped because, until a contract has been signed, the landlord is free to change his or her mind about whom to offer a tenancy.
