State schools are trying to "gazump" each other as they fight to attract the best pupils, research suggests today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

"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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football transfer rumours: Raúl to Newcastle United?] Reference

Could the Prez use his political power to gazump secured debt holders?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Cars] Reference

"I couldn't possibly gazump him on that (decision)," Heads told AAP today.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roar - Your Sports Opinion] Reference

'Arsene Wenger last night launched an 11th-hour bid to gazump Manchester United.    From Wordnik.com.  [TEAMtalk Football News] Reference

The BBC will whip out the second special, with very little notice, and gazump ITV.    From Wordnik.com.  [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference

The Government-backed TVNZ bid was put in at the last minute seeking to gazump MTS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

Sullivan has warned of the possibility of "riots" and "civil unrest" if Tottenham gazump.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

Now that we can help people transact in the trustee market, we can gazump short sale offers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irvine Housing Blog] Reference

Anyone wishing to gazump the trendsetters and fast-forward straight into the late-90s / early.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference

A common way that a seller will gazump is by emphasizing a competing buyer - or even inventing the second buyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investopedia.com Headlines] Reference

The local release of the Dream will gazump the postponed plans by Melbourne's Kogan Technologies to launch its own.    From Wordnik.com.  [APC] Reference

It's like the Telethon all over again, isn't it - John Boy basking in your forced generosity to gazump the genuine article.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not PC] Reference

He just thought that Microsoft would provide that phone, not that Apple would gazump the phone world with a game-changing handset.    From Wordnik.com.  [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference

Javier Mascherano to Barcelona to release the necessary funds to gazump the other teams stalking Cole, who is currently injured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Post: Latest] Reference

We understand City's Championship rivals Derby, Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United could be ready to gazump the Bluebirds £400,000 swoop for Porter.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

Diego Maradona's Argentina: it's magnificent but it's not football | Richard Williams Football transfer rumours: Manchester City to gazump United for Maicon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The seller presumably expects that the buyer is already committed to purchasing the property to the degree that a last-minute gazump will not change the buyer's mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investopedia.com Headlines] Reference

Daily Mail report that "Aston Villa are interested in Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas and are ready to gazump rivals Wolves for Serbian midfielder Nenad Milijas.".    From Wordnik.com.  [101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more] Reference

Rio Ferdinand must be grateful England will not play another Ukraine for some time | Paul Wilson Football transfer rumours: Manchester City to gazump United for Maicon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference

In a further twist to Portsmouth's financial misery it emerged Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger is trying to gazump Tottenham in their pursuit of Begovic, delaying the Bosnian international's departure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

It seems unlikely that this book would serve solicitors and barristers in England without entries like gazump, ancient lights, and other legal terms that, as far as I know, are peculiar to British usage.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3] Reference

Manchester United have seemingly cooled their interest in the attacking midfielder but Chelsea have continued to hold back on a bid for the Bayern Munich star as they feared Real Madrid would gazump them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

Yesterday's events represent a significant coup for Newcastle boss Hughton, who persuaded Mike Ashley to move quickly in order to gazump Middlesbrough, who had already held preliminary talks with Routledge's representatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football.co.uk news feed] Reference

A gazump can refer to other forms of cheating, but it is most commonly associated with real estate. gazunder is the opposite practice in which a buyer will abruptly lower the offered price before the transaction is finalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investopedia.com Headlines] Reference

For City's owner Sheikh Mansour Robinho was a trophy as much as a player - his arrival proved that City had the financial clout to gazump Chelsea in the transfer market and could attract the world's biggest names to Eastlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Post: Latest] Reference

Ed Mead, director of London agents Douglas & Gordon, said the company's Wandsworth branch had seen one buyer try to gazump another by £50,000 after a bidding battle pushed the price on a property from £800,000 to nearly £900,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Syrian Yahya Kirdi aims to gazump Kenneth Huang in race for Liverpool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I would never gazump a property out from under someone’s feet, and I’m a man of my word.    From Wordnik.com.  [There’s a metaphor here somewhere… « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

(the food), kibosh (as in put the kibosh on), Cockamamie, gazump, gnof or (older English) gnoffe, guy (the person, not the rope), and shyster are from Yiddish.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4] Reference

Manchester City would only gazump me by another hundred million or so).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea Blog] Reference

11. 13am: Fresh developments in the bidding for Liverpool Football Club, with news filtering through that the former Syria international Yahya Kirdi is trying to gazump the Chinese businessman Kenneth Huang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today in Sport – live!] Reference

Meanwhile, Sky has hatched a plan to gazump.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crave at CNET UK] Reference

gazump, insurance comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-gazumping insurance now available to ALL house buyers in England and Wales] Reference