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pre-emptpre-empt, pre·empt /priˈempt/ verb [transitive] preemptOrigin: 1800-1900 preemption (17-21 centuries), from Medieval Latin praeemere ‘to buy before’ VERB TABLEpre-empt |
Present | I, you, we, they | pre-empt | | he, she, it | pre-empts | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pre-empted | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pre-empted | | he, she, it | has pre-empted | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pre-empted | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pre-empt | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pre-empted |
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Present | I | am pre-empting | | he, she, it | is pre-empting | | you, we, they | are pre-empting | Past | I, he, she, it | was pre-empting | | you, we, they | were pre-empting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been pre-empting | | he, she, it | has been pre-empting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been pre-empting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be pre-empting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been pre-empting |
1to make what someone has planned to do or say unnecessary or ineffective by saying or doing something first: The deal pre-empted a strike by rail workers.2American English to replace a television show with a special programme or report: Regular programming was preempted by a report on the war.—pre-emption /-ˈempʃən/ noun [uncountable] |