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gazumping

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gazumped

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They were then gazumped by the local authority, which bought it for £900 more.
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How many more people will be gazumped in the coming year or two, before even his modest proposals take effect?
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Effectively that motion has been gazumped by people queue-jumping by introducing a writ this morning.
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I have great sympathy with those who find themselves gazumped because of such practices.
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I agree that if people pay for structural surveys and building society surveys and then find that they are gazumped, such money is wasted.
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He can obtain no answer from the building firm about whether his plot will be gazumped.
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Is she aware that the national health service may be gazumped by a private bidder?
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That is rather like being gazumped in reverse.
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They explained that they would not like to be gazumped for £500.
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Is it not possible that the teachers may be driven to take some form of industrial action because they feel that in this matter they have been gazumped?
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It is a national disgrace that local authorities, including my own, which require land for building council houses for rent, should be gazumped by greedy and speculative builders.
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Very often, when a local authority ought to have the opportunity to buy, it is gazumped by private interests because it is restricted in its expenditure by valuation control.
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It will save many young people the misery of seeing their savings disappear as they are gazumped, and it will help elderly people seeking homes to which to retire.
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