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Verb
/prēˈempt/,
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Take action in order to prevent (an anticipated event) from happening; forestall,
  1. Take action in order to prevent (an anticipated event) from happening; forestall
    • - the government preempted a coup attempt
  2. Act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them from doing something
    • - it looked as if she'd ask him more, but Parr preempted her
  3. (of a broadcast) Interrupt or replace (a scheduled program)
    • - the violence preempted regular programming
  4. Acquire or appropriate (something) in advance
    • - many tables were already preempted by family parties
  5. Take (something, esp. public land) for oneself so as to have the right of preemption

  6. Make a preemptive bid

Noun
  1. A preemptive bid

  1. acquire for oneself before others can do so
  2. preemptive bid: a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding
  3. take the place of or have precedence over; "live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour"; "discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor"
  4. gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)
  5. make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge
  6. (preemption) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
  7. Preempt (also spelled "Pre-empt") is a bid in contract bridge whose primary objectives are (1) to thwart opponents ability to bid to their best contract, with some safety, and (2) to fully describe one's hand to one's partner in a single bid. A preemptive bid is usually made by jumping, i.e. ...
  8. (Preemption (computing)) In computing, preemption (sometimes pre-emption) is the act of temporarily interrupting a task being carried out by a computer system, without requiring its cooperation, and with the intention of resuming the task at a later time. ...
  9. to appropriate something (before someone else does); to displace something, or take precedence over something; to make a preemptive bid at bridge
  10. Alternative spelling of preempt
  11. (Preemption) A legal theory in which federal law takes precedent over state law if they deal with the same subject and the federal law is determined to be all encompassing.
  12. (PREEMPTION) In certain cases defined by law, the French State has a right of preemption on works sold at public auction. ...
  13. (Pre-emption) A sequence where all approaches but one are given red signals for the purpose of clearing the way for an emergency vehicle, a train, an opening drawbridge, or any other special traffic area required to be quickly emptied of vehicles. ...
  14. (Pre-emption) The right of a shareholder (for example a participant in an oil field or joint venture) which entitles it to buy the interest of another before it becomes available to a third party. Such rights are usually detailed in the Joint Operating Agreement or Articles of Association.
  15. (Pre-emption) this term describes the right of first refusal to buy something. For example, if the 'widget' company issues new shares, some shareholders will have the right of first refusal, or, put another way, the chance to buy the shares before anybody else.
  16. (Preemption) A legal rule. based on the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, under which state laws can be preempted (i.e., blocked from enforcement) by federal law. ERISA contains a complicated express preemption provision. ...
  17. (Preemption) An abrupt removal of a previously scheduled infomercial (or any) broadcast. It happens most often for a breaking news story.
  18. (Preemption) Doctrine adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court, holding that certain matters are of such a national, as opposed to local, character that federal laws preempt or take precedence over state laws. As such, a state may not pass a law inconsistent with the federal law.
  19. (Preemption) Section 514(a) of ERISA preempts all state laws insofar as they relate to employee benefit plans covered by Title I of ERISA subject only to certain exceptions expressly provided in section 514(b) of ERISA, was enacted to ensure that ERISA’s substantive standards would uniformly ...
  20. (Preemption) The act of purchasing before or ahead of another person.
  21. (Preemption) The prerogative of customs authorities to seize and sell merchandise that an importer has deliberately undervalued to avoid payment of duties.
  22. (Preemption) The process which moves a currently running task into the ready state, when a task with higher priority gets ready to run.
  23. (Preemption) The transfer of normal operation of highway traffic signals to a special control mode.
  24. (pre-emption) a system whereby specific vehicles can interrupt the normal traffic signal cycle and obtain a green signal for their direction of travel.  In San Antonio and many cities, signal pre-emption is used by emergency vehicles. ...
  25. (preemption) A process that was running on a CPU is replaced by a higher priority process.