The act of gazumping.
A politician who takes bribes.
To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
To swindle; to extort.
The act or operation of reaping.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The material cut off in this way.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
Tending to cut or tear.