gazump vs shearing

gazump

noun
  • The act of gazumping. 

  • A politician who takes bribes. 

verb
  • 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. 

shearing

noun
  • 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. 

adj
  • Tending to cut or tear. 

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