gazumped

THE Green Party leadership was accused yesterday of being "gazumped" by Fianna Fail over its failure to deliver a public inquiry into the banking crisis.

Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

Under the terms of a complicated and fraught negotiation, Chelsea had to pay £12mof his fee to a gazumped United, who will have felt a great deal less chagrined after Mikel's undistinguished performance here, one of many which have undermined the claims made on his behalf during his teenage years.

As Carlo Ancelotti looks set for Chelsea exit, who will replace him? | Richard Williams 2011

On the upside, you can't be gazumped at the end of the buying process, like in the U.K.

A Buyer's Guide to France Tara Loader Wilkinson 2010

At the time, analysts at Cazenove said BlackRock in effect gazumped Macquarie, which had reportedly agreed to lease Drapers Gardens for 20 years at £43 a square foot, with a four-year rent-free period.

Upturn in commercial property may have run its course 2010

The script (co-written with fellow Boosh star Dave Brown) is almost entirely devoid of wit, featuring video clips of Eleanor swearing a lot about the glam-rock band Poison and of the moment – tenuously related to the show's groupie conceit – she was gazumped on Britain's Got Talent by Susan Boyle.

Rich Fulcher: An Evening with Eleanor, the Tour Whore 2010

In other words, Sittenfeld gazumped Bush on the telling of her life and told it not only better, but with surprising accuracy, considering she had never met her.

Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire' Hadley Freeman 2010

As anyone who has ever been gazumped, gazundered or gaziddled can attest, being cheated out of the property on which you've set your heart is enough to make anyone think bad thoughts, though I'd like to believe not many of us would go as far as Josie in the disembowelling and penis-lopping stakes.

Why aren't more slasher movies set in blocks of flats? Anne Billson 2010

Curtis Sittenfeld is one of the finest novelists writing in America, best known for American Wife, in which she gazumped Laura Bush's life story.

Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire' Hadley Freeman 2010

But rival channel Five gazumped the terrestrial rights, forcing the BBC to look elsewhere for shows to plug the gap.

Ramsey Street casts a long shadow DAVID BISHOP 2008

But rival channel Five gazumped the terrestrial rights, forcing the BBC to look elsewhere for shows to plug the gap.

Archive 2008-05-01 DAVID BISHOP 2008