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pre-adamite | pre-christian | pre-columbian | pre-eclampsia | pre-eminently | pre-empt | pre-emption | pre-emptive | pre-emptive strike | pre-emptor | pre-existence

pre-empt

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Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pre-empt, v.
1 tr. a forestall. b acquire or appropriate in advance.
2 tr. prevent (an attack) by disabling the enemy.
3 tr. obtain by pre-emption.
4 tr. US take for oneself (esp. public land) so as to have the right of pre-emption.
5 intr. Bridge make a pre-emptive bid.

Derivative
preemptor n. preemptory adj.
Etymology
back-form. f. PRE-EMPTION

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