pre-emptv.

Brit.

/ˌpriːˈɛm(p)t/,

/prɪˈɛm(p)t/, U.S.

/priˈɛm(p)t/

Forms: 1800s– pre-empt, 1800s– preëmpt.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: pre-emption n., pre-emptive adj.

Etymology: Apparently < pre-empt- (in pre-emption n., pre-emptive adj.). Compare French préempter (dated 1836 in Robert Dict. alphabétique et analogique (1986)).

a. transitive. To obtain, or seek to obtain, by pre-emption; esp. (chiefly North American) to secure (public land) in order to establish a pre-emptive title. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > have or possess [verb (transitive)] > occupy > land

pre-empt1846

society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > obtain land by pre-emption right

pre-empt1846

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [verb (transitive)] > acquire pre-emptive title to

pre-empt1846

1846 Times 4 Feb. 5/6 The President of the United States should be authorized by a law of Congress..to issue his proclamation, forbidding them to settle on the United States' lands or to pre-empt them.

1850 H. C. Lewis Odd Leaves 87 A few hours' ride from town was one of these islands, ‘pre-empted’ by a man named Spiffle.

1870 B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp & Other Sketches 16 To make their seclusion more perfect, the land on either side of the mountain wall that surrounded the camp they duly preempted.

1900 C. W. Goodlander Memoirs Fort Scott 14 If you wanted to pre-empt the land you had to build a house or a shanty..and live there off and on for six months before you could use your pre-emption right.

1948 A. K. Williams Gold Rush Days 7 I preempted 160 acres for which I paid the government $16.00 an acre.

1983 Listener 27 Jan. 22/2 It was by marriage that they obtained the reversion of the Mowbrays' Norfolk inheritance, though there was a dangerous moment when it was pre-empted by Edward IV for his younger son, the Duke of York.

1999 J. Lutz in R. W. Sandwell Beyond City Limits i. 21 In 1866 the right of Aboriginal people to pre-empt land was revoked.

†b. intransitive. U.S. To take possession of land in this way. Also in extended use (see quot. 1889). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1867 A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi 138 Land is plenty and everybody preëmpts.

1885 Science 6 318 An unscrupulous ‘colonist’ [in Algeria] can often preëmpt in several places at the same time.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms (at cited word) Colloquially, to pre-empt is to take possession, or to qualify for. Thus a man may pre-empt for heaven.

2. transitive. Originally U.S. To acquire, lay claim to, or appropriate beforehand.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > beforehand

pre-engage1649

pre-empt1855

1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota & Far West 162 If you can find a corner that's not pre-empted, you may spread your shavings there [for a bed].

1888 Literature (N.Y.) 1 Sept. 276 [The Prohibition party] had unquestionably pre-empted for itself the proud position of the party of the future.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains x. 283 The honours are pre-empted for other trades.

1913 J. London Valley of Moon 11 Many [tables and benches]..were already pre-empted by family parties.

1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society xviii. 204 A large proportion of the federal revenues are pre-empted by defence.

1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Mar. d16/3 The study of the four couples..could well be an attempt to pre-empt the title ‘Publisher to the Affluent’ and keep it out of the hands of the Johnnies-come-lately.

2005 Chron. Higher Educ. (Nexis) 3 June (Chronicle Review section) 6 Special lockers..that, in effect, pre-empt space that otherwise would be designated for such messy art supplies as paint or charcoal.

3. Bridge.

a. intransitive. To make a pre-emptive bid.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > play bridge [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > bid > types of bid

overbid1887

double1894

redouble1894

to go back1900

pre-empt1913

rebid1914

S.O.S.1926

overcall1927

cue-bid1932

psych1932

to sign off1932

reverse1939

sacrifice1952

to pass out1959

stop1959

underbid1974

under-call-

1913 M. C. Work Auction Devel. 313 It is the exceptional case in which it is advisable to preëmpt with an original No Trump.

1947 S. Harris Fund. Princ. Contract Bridge i. i. 17 When North preempts but does not make a game bid, it is important for South to remember that he must not increase the contract unless he holds three quick tricks.

1972 R. Markus Aces & Places 35 South opened the bidding with 1 ♠, West doubled and North..pre-empted to 4 ♠, which became the final contract.

2003 Independent (Nexis) 5 Sept. 26 Taking the nine as top of a doubleton, East was marked with seven clubs. (Players have been known to pre-empt on fewer!)

b. transitive. To thwart (a player) by making a pre-emptive bid; to prevent (a bid) by doing this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > anticipate, forecast [verb (transitive)]

to cast dangerc1449

forecasta1513

preventa1533

foredeem1542

premeditate1566

foretake1588

fore-run1591

foreprise1597

to lay one's account with (also on, for)1606

foreguess1640

prospect1652

precalculate1840

pre-empt1928

second-guess1941

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > bid > types of bid

double1894

redouble1894

respond1901

overbid1908

underbid1908

to take out of ——1909

rebid1914

rescue1921

jump1927

overcall1927

pre-empt1928

cue-bid1932

psych1937

1928 Evening State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 14 Feb. 5/5 (advt.) With how many spades does Mr. Richards, South, pre-empt the bid?

1964 R. L. Frey & A. F. Truscott Official Encycl. Bridge 435/1 The third player..knows that he cannot pre-empt his partner.

2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 2 June 24 North did not want to let East into the fray. His 1S effectively pre-empted East and ensured peace and quiet.

4. transitive. Broadcasting. To cancel or abandon a planned broadcast of (a programme), usually in order to reallocate the air time to something else. Of a programme: to displace (another programme) from the schedules.A development of an earlier spec. use of sense 2, by which an agency or programme was said to pre-empt broadcasting time, i.e. to appropriate it so as to exclude other broadcasts.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > one thing in favour of another

pre-empt1952

1922 Los Angeles Times 31 Apr. i. 2/4 [He] was the first Senator to pre-empt the air and the Navy wireless apparatus to broadcast his political ideas to the awaiting thousands in Indiana.

1934 Los Angeles Times 30 Sept. ii. 6/6 KECA will not broadcast ‘Art of America’ programs. A commercial program pre-empted the hour, Saturdays, 5 to 5:20.]

1952 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 27 July 11/7 This $28,000 would go up..if the candidate could find no open time and had to preempt a commercially-sponsored program.

1966 Courier-Times (Levittown, Pa.) 25 June (Showtime section) 18/2 Why is a good show like Mickie Finn's pre-empted so often? Why doesn't the network pre-empt re-runs?

1989 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 17 May vi. 10 ABC's top-rated ‘Roseanne’ was preempted by ‘War and Remembrance’.

2000 A. Peycke in J. Bowe et al. Gig 264 The network has preempted the program.

5. transitive. To render invalid or ineffective; to preclude; to prevent (an anticipated occurrence), esp. by taking particular action; to take such action in advance of (another person), to forestall.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)]

forbidc1000

forrunc1275

forbar1303

before-comec1384

withstanda1400

withholdc1400

prevenec1485

supprime1490

interrupt1497

resist?a1513

prevent1522

discourage1528

prohibit1531

stop1534

forleta1555

bar1559

to bar by and main1567

disbar1567

to cut off1576

embar1577

forestall1579

obvent1588

cancel1594

waylay1625

suppress1651

antevene1655

arceate1657

exarceate1657

interpel1722

stump1858

estop1876

plug1887

pre-empt1957

deter1961

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall

before-takea1382

preventc1425

devance1485

prevenea1500

lurch1530

to take before the bounda1556

to be aforehand with1570

to be beforehand with1574

to meet halfwaya1586

preoccupate1588

forestall1589

fore-run1591

surprise1591

antedate1595

foreprise1597

preoccupy1607

preoccupy1638

pre-act1655

anticipatea1682

obviate1712

to head off1841

beat1847

to beat out1893

pre-empt1957

1957 Odessa (Texas) American 24 July The argument is given by the pro-draft people, that a national emergency pre-empts individual supremacy.

1968 Listener 5 Dec. 768/1 I think the Nazi regime by its own grotesque vileness pre-empted fictional effort.

1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto xvi. 217 He would kill me when the showdown came unless I could pre-empt him.

1993 F. Kippax Other People's Blood (BNC) 117 For a moment it looked as if she'd ask him more, she raised her face to his. So Parr pre-empted her.

2005 Scunthorpe Evening Tel. (Nexis) 13 June 5 It is hoped the move could pre-empt an announcement by the Government that it has found a way to alter planning laws.

Derivatives

pre-ˈempted adj.

ΚΠ

1862 J. S. Hittell Mining Pacific States N. Amer. xi. 196 A ‘preëmpted claim’, to mean one in immediate vicinity of paying diggings.

1880 Scribner's Monthly May 102 Rival missionary boards over-run pre-empted ground and obliterate the boundaries of Christian comity.

1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxi. 242 The business of carrying satchels for railroad passengers was a preëmpted one—whenever he essayed it, eight or ten men and boys would fall upon him and force him to run for his life.

1994 Proscenium Fall 16 The arts community was..reeling from the pre-empted merger of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canada Council, cut off at the pass by the Senate.

pre-ˈempting n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [noun]

forecastinga1529

foreguessing1548

prevening1557

prejudice1560

prolepsis1578

foredeeming1587

forestalment1611

forestalling1641

forethought1653

anticipation1711

pre-empting1857

precasting1863

second-guessing1946

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > anticipation

preventing1530

preoccupation1552

anticipation1553

antedate1573

prolepsis1578

forestalment1611

forestalling1641

precourse1678

pre-echo1781

pre-empting1857

previousness1881

proaction1953

proactivity1965

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [adjective] > type of hand

pre-empting1857

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective] > anticipating or forestalling

lurching1577

anticipating1611

anticipanta1631

anticipative1664

anticipatory1669

forecoming1860

proactive1951

pre-empting1965

1857 T. H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 168 The act itself is called that of ‘entering’, or ‘pre-empting’.

1920 M. C. Work Auction Methods Up-to-Date v. 63 A real preëmpting hand contains an unusual distribution of cards.

1965 H. Kahn On Escalation 287 It [sc. pre-emptive war] denotes an attack made because of a belief that the other side has determined to make an attack on the pre-empting party.

2003 Cult Times May 9/2 ABC finally gave up on Miracles and Veritas: The Quest, both of which fell foul of frequent pre-empting in favour of war coverage.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pre-empt
释义	pre-emptn. Brit. /ˌpriːˈɛm(p)t/, /prɪˈɛm(p)t/, U.S. /priˈɛm(p)t/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pre-empt v. Etymology: < pre-empt v. With sense 1 compare earlier pre-emptive n. †1. Australian colloquial. A pre-emptive right. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III. xxiv. 4 My friend has the run, and the stock, and the pre-empts all in his own hands. 2. Bridge. A pre-emptive bid. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > call > bidding > bid > other types of bid ask1872 overcall1890 rescue bid1912 game-goer1913 reverse bid1915 denial1916 rebid1916 overbid?1917 rescue?1917 under-call1923 jump1927 invitation1928 score-bid1928 approach1929 pre-empt1929 one-over-one1931 response1931 cue-bid1932 psychic1932 asking bid1936 reverse1936 shut-out1936 under-bid1945 controlled psychic1959 relay bid1959 raise1964 psych1965 multi1972 splinter bid1977 1929 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 31 Aug. 35/1 A call which at love-all he would not have dreamt of making on the same cards—a bid of Two Spades on a long weak string with stuffing outside or a feeble sort of pre-empt in a minor. 1959 Listener 8 Jan. 84/2 It [sc. the hand] could qualify for the bolder pre-empt of Four Clubs. 1994 Daily Tel. 30 Sept. 29/4 After East's sensible decision to pass a marginal opening, South could not resist trying a rather wild pre-empt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pre-emptv. Brit. /ˌpriːˈɛm(p)t/, /prɪˈɛm(p)t/, U.S. /priˈɛm(p)t/ Forms: 1800s– pre-empt, 1800s– preëmpt. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: pre-emption n., pre-emptive adj. Etymology: Apparently < pre-empt- (in pre-emption n., pre-emptive adj.). Compare French préempter (dated 1836 in Robert Dict. alphabétique et analogique (1986)). 1. a. transitive. To obtain, or seek to obtain, by pre-emption; esp. (chiefly North American) to secure (public land) in order to establish a pre-emptive title. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > have or possess [verb (transitive)] > occupy > land pre-empt1846 society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > obtain land by pre-emption right pre-empt1846 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [verb (transitive)] > acquire pre-emptive title to pre-empt1846 1846 Times 4 Feb. 5/6 The President of the United States should be authorized by a law of Congress..to issue his proclamation, forbidding them to settle on the United States' lands or to pre-empt them. 1850 H. C. Lewis Odd Leaves 87 A few hours' ride from town was one of these islands, ‘pre-empted’ by a man named Spiffle. 1870 B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp & Other Sketches 16 To make their seclusion more perfect, the land on either side of the mountain wall that surrounded the camp they duly preempted. 1900 C. W. Goodlander Memoirs Fort Scott 14 If you wanted to pre-empt the land you had to build a house or a shanty..and live there off and on for six months before you could use your pre-emption right. 1948 A. K. Williams Gold Rush Days 7 I preempted 160 acres for which I paid the government $16.00 an acre. 1983 Listener 27 Jan. 22/2 It was by marriage that they obtained the reversion of the Mowbrays' Norfolk inheritance, though there was a dangerous moment when it was pre-empted by Edward IV for his younger son, the Duke of York. 1999 J. Lutz in R. W. Sandwell Beyond City Limits i. 21 In 1866 the right of Aboriginal people to pre-empt land was revoked. †b. intransitive. U.S. To take possession of land in this way. Also in extended use (see quot. 1889). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1867 A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi 138 Land is plenty and everybody preëmpts. 1885 Science 6 318 An unscrupulous ‘colonist’ [in Algeria] can often preëmpt in several places at the same time. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms (at cited word) Colloquially, to pre-empt is to take possession, or to qualify for. Thus a man may pre-empt for heaven. 2. transitive. Originally U.S. To acquire, lay claim to, or appropriate beforehand. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > beforehand pre-engage1649 pre-empt1855 1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota & Far West 162 If you can find a corner that's not pre-empted, you may spread your shavings there [for a bed]. 1888 Literature (N.Y.) 1 Sept. 276 [The Prohibition party] had unquestionably pre-empted for itself the proud position of the party of the future. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains x. 283 The honours are pre-empted for other trades. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon 11 Many [tables and benches]..were already pre-empted by family parties. 1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society xviii. 204 A large proportion of the federal revenues are pre-empted by defence. 1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Mar. d16/3 The study of the four couples..could well be an attempt to pre-empt the title ‘Publisher to the Affluent’ and keep it out of the hands of the Johnnies-come-lately. 2005 Chron. Higher Educ. (Nexis) 3 June (Chronicle Review section) 6 Special lockers..that, in effect, pre-empt space that otherwise would be designated for such messy art supplies as paint or charcoal. 3. Bridge. a. intransitive. To make a pre-emptive bid. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > play bridge [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > bid > types of bid overbid1887 double1894 redouble1894 to go back1900 pre-empt1913 rebid1914 S.O.S.1926 overcall1927 cue-bid1932 psych1932 to sign off1932 reverse1939 sacrifice1952 to pass out1959 stop1959 underbid1974 under-call- 1913 M. C. Work Auction Devel. 313 It is the exceptional case in which it is advisable to preëmpt with an original No Trump. 1947 S. Harris Fund. Princ. Contract Bridge i. i. 17 When North preempts but does not make a game bid, it is important for South to remember that he must not increase the contract unless he holds three quick tricks. 1972 R. Markus Aces & Places 35 South opened the bidding with 1 ♠, West doubled and North..pre-empted to 4 ♠, which became the final contract. 2003 Independent (Nexis) 5 Sept. 26 Taking the nine as top of a doubleton, East was marked with seven clubs. (Players have been known to pre-empt on fewer!) b. transitive. To thwart (a player) by making a pre-emptive bid; to prevent (a bid) by doing this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > anticipate, forecast [verb (transitive)] to cast dangerc1449 forecasta1513 preventa1533 foredeem1542 premeditate1566 foretake1588 fore-run1591 foreprise1597 to lay one's account with (also on, for)1606 foreguess1640 prospect1652 precalculate1840 pre-empt1928 second-guess1941 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > bid > types of bid double1894 redouble1894 respond1901 overbid1908 underbid1908 to take out of ——1909 rebid1914 rescue1921 jump1927 overcall1927 pre-empt1928 cue-bid1932 psych1937 1928 Evening State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 14 Feb. 5/5 (advt.) With how many spades does Mr. Richards, South, pre-empt the bid? 1964 R. L. Frey & A. F. Truscott Official Encycl. Bridge 435/1 The third player..knows that he cannot pre-empt his partner. 2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 2 June 24 North did not want to let East into the fray. His 1S effectively pre-empted East and ensured peace and quiet. 4. transitive. Broadcasting. To cancel or abandon a planned broadcast of (a programme), usually in order to reallocate the air time to something else. Of a programme: to displace (another programme) from the schedules.A development of an earlier spec. use of sense 2, by which an agency or programme was said to pre-empt broadcasting time, i.e. to appropriate it so as to exclude other broadcasts. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > one thing in favour of another pre-empt1952 1922 Los Angeles Times 31 Apr. i. 2/4 [He] was the first Senator to pre-empt the air and the Navy wireless apparatus to broadcast his political ideas to the awaiting thousands in Indiana. 1934 Los Angeles Times 30 Sept. ii. 6/6 KECA will not broadcast ‘Art of America’ programs. A commercial program pre-empted the hour, Saturdays, 5 to 5:20.] 1952 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 27 July 11/7 This $28,000 would go up..if the candidate could find no open time and had to preempt a commercially-sponsored program. 1966 Courier-Times (Levittown, Pa.) 25 June (Showtime section) 18/2 Why is a good show like Mickie Finn's pre-empted so often? Why doesn't the network pre-empt re-runs? 1989 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 17 May vi. 10 ABC's top-rated ‘Roseanne’ was preempted by ‘War and Remembrance’. 2000 A. Peycke in J. Bowe et al. Gig 264 The network has preempted the program. 5. transitive. To render invalid or ineffective; to preclude; to prevent (an anticipated occurrence), esp. by taking particular action; to take such action in advance of (another person), to forestall. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] forbidc1000 forrunc1275 forbar1303 before-comec1384 withstanda1400 withholdc1400 prevenec1485 supprime1490 interrupt1497 resist?a1513 prevent1522 discourage1528 prohibit1531 stop1534 forleta1555 bar1559 to bar by and main1567 disbar1567 to cut off1576 embar1577 forestall1579 obvent1588 cancel1594 waylay1625 suppress1651 antevene1655 arceate1657 exarceate1657 interpel1722 stump1858 estop1876 plug1887 pre-empt1957 deter1961 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall before-takea1382 preventc1425 devance1485 prevenea1500 lurch1530 to take before the bounda1556 to be aforehand with1570 to be beforehand with1574 to meet halfwaya1586 preoccupate1588 forestall1589 fore-run1591 surprise1591 antedate1595 foreprise1597 preoccupy1607 preoccupy1638 pre-act1655 anticipatea1682 obviate1712 to head off1841 beat1847 to beat out1893 pre-empt1957 1957 Odessa (Texas) American 24 July The argument is given by the pro-draft people, that a national emergency pre-empts individual supremacy. 1968 Listener 5 Dec. 768/1 I think the Nazi regime by its own grotesque vileness pre-empted fictional effort. 1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto xvi. 217 He would kill me when the showdown came unless I could pre-empt him. 1993 F. Kippax Other People's Blood (BNC) 117 For a moment it looked as if she'd ask him more, she raised her face to his. So Parr pre-empted her. 2005 Scunthorpe Evening Tel. (Nexis) 13 June 5 It is hoped the move could pre-empt an announcement by the Government that it has found a way to alter planning laws. Derivatives pre-ˈempted adj. ΚΠ 1862 J. S. Hittell Mining Pacific States N. Amer. xi. 196 A ‘preëmpted claim’, to mean one in immediate vicinity of paying diggings. 1880 Scribner's Monthly May 102 Rival missionary boards over-run pre-empted ground and obliterate the boundaries of Christian comity. 1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxi. 242 The business of carrying satchels for railroad passengers was a preëmpted one—whenever he essayed it, eight or ten men and boys would fall upon him and force him to run for his life. 1994 Proscenium Fall 16 The arts community was..reeling from the pre-empted merger of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canada Council, cut off at the pass by the Senate. pre-ˈempting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [noun] forecastinga1529 foreguessing1548 prevening1557 prejudice1560 prolepsis1578 foredeeming1587 forestalment1611 forestalling1641 forethought1653 anticipation1711 pre-empting1857 precasting1863 second-guessing1946 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > anticipation preventing1530 preoccupation1552 anticipation1553 antedate1573 prolepsis1578 forestalment1611 forestalling1641 precourse1678 pre-echo1781 pre-empting1857 previousness1881 proaction1953 proactivity1965 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [adjective] > type of hand pre-empting1857 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective] > anticipating or forestalling lurching1577 anticipating1611 anticipanta1631 anticipative1664 anticipatory1669 forecoming1860 proactive1951 pre-empting1965 1857 T. H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 168 The act itself is called that of ‘entering’, or ‘pre-empting’. 1920 M. C. Work Auction Methods Up-to-Date v. 63 A real preëmpting hand contains an unusual distribution of cards. 1965 H. Kahn On Escalation 287 It [sc. pre-emptive war] denotes an attack made because of a belief that the other side has determined to make an attack on the pre-empting party. 2003 Cult Times May 9/2 ABC finally gave up on Miracles and Veritas: The Quest, both of which fell foul of frequent pre-empting in favour of war coverage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1890v.1846
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pre-emptn.

pre-emptv.

Derivatives