"preempt" meaning in All languages combined

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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    },
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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from preemption.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "preempts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preempting",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preempted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preempted",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "He preempted that hill to be its king.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, R. L. Hill, Brood Sows and Their Litters: A Practical Book on how to Handle the Brood Sow and Her Litter. What to Feed, when to Feed and how to Feed. Also how to Care for the Litter, page 66",
          "text": "When they have preempted their ground [=their particular teat] they want to keep it, so you often see a fight, but see that there is only one claim made and then the old sow will not be disturbed. When once ranged they will always seek the same place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Balance the Federal Budget: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session …, page 582",
          "text": "[...] the losers complaining that their party may see another popular issue preempted by what one of them called \"born-again Democratic fiscal conservatives.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appropriate first."
      ],
      "id": "en-preempt-en-verb-CvKuKM05",
      "links": [
        [
          "appropriate",
          "appropriate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To appropriate first."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "84 5 6 3 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qiǎngzhàn",
          "sense": "to appropriate",
          "word": "搶占"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 5 6 3 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to appropriate",
          "word": "搶先"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 5 6 3 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qiǎngxiān",
          "sense": "to appropriate",
          "word": "抢先"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 5 6 3 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to appropriate",
          "word": "zuvorkommen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "84 5 6 3 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to appropriate",
          "word": "vorgreifen"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "text": "Floppy disks were preempted by CDs."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, National Communications Infrastructure, page 173",
          "text": "Similarly, in order to realize fully the benefits to consumers of increased competition in telecommunications, the Administration proposes to preempt state entry regulation for provision of telecommunications and information services.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Shari Shattuck, Speak of the Devil, Penguin, page 5",
          "text": "Leah and Jenny's friendship had happened upon them quickly because of a shared harrowing experience that had preempted the usual years of trust building .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David Fraser, And We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in the Second World War, A&C Black",
          "text": "A German move from the west had preempted them. By nightfall the whole Sidi Rezegh Ridge was in German occupation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To displace or take the place of (by having higher precedence, etc)."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "displace",
          "displace"
        ],
        [
          "precedence",
          "precedence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To displace or take the place of (by having higher precedence, etc)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
          "ref": "1985, Thomas M. Franck, Nation Against Nation: What Happened to the U.N. Dream and What the U.S. Can Do About It, Oxford University Press, page 35",
          "text": "By his statement, the Secretary-General had effectively preempted the usual frustrating debates over questions of fact and law.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Robert E. Plamondon, Blue thunder, page 372",
          "text": "But when it came time to hear from Charest on the evening of the razor-thin federalist victory, Jean Chretien deliberately preempted his appearance on national television.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Robb Forman Dew, The Time of Her Life",
          "text": "In fact, before Jane said anything at all, Claudia preempted her and began to speak very rapidly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Matt Hults, Anything Can be Dangerous, Books of the Dead Press",
          "text": "[…] the knife when he passed it, managing to pull it from the doorframe, but Riverwind preempted his action and slammed the pistol-butt down on his wrist.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, K. M. Daughters, Fill the Stadium, The Wild Rose Press Inc",
          "text": "She preempted his denial holding out a flat palm in his direction. “Do not play games with me, Mr. Cooper. Give me the notebook.” She advanced toward his ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Cynthia L Evetts, Suzanne M Peloquin, Mindful Crafts as Therapy: Engaging More Than Hands, F.A. Davis, page 7",
          "text": "The nurse's attention to his room and skin temperature preempted his discomfort. Professional coldness prevailed. How differently might Beisser have felt ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Cris E. Haltom, Cathie Simpson, Mary Tantillo, Understanding Teen Eating Disorders",
          "text": "Distressed and embarrassed from the previous night's group messaging, he figured he would appear more trustworthy and self-responsible to the guidance counselor if he preempted his friends' report and confessed the eating disorder.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Anthony Ephirim-Donkor, The Making of an African King, page 37",
          "text": "He always preempted his enemies by being the first to greet them and inquiring about their well-being.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first."
      ],
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          "beat to the punch",
          "beat to the punch"
        ],
        [
          "forestall",
          "forestall"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "14 22 31 20 13",
          "sense": "supersede",
          "tags": [
            "Internet",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "ninja"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption (purchasing before others, e.g. land because one already occupies it)."
      ],
      "id": "en-preempt-en-verb-fTYk1OyD",
      "links": [
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          "preemption",
          "preemption"
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        "(transitive) To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption (purchasing before others, e.g. land because one already occupies it)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bridge",
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            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
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        "To make a preemptive bid at bridge."
      ],
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          "preemptive",
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        [
          "bid",
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        [
          "bridge",
          "bridge"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(bridge, intransitive) To make a preemptive bid at bridge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
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        "bridge",
        "games"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpɹiː.ˈɛmpt/"
    },
    {
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}

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  ],
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        "A preemptive bid."
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        "(bridge) A preemptive bid."
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    "English back-formations",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with vowel pseudo-digraphs",
    "English verbs",
    "IPA for English using .ˈ or .ˌ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛmpt"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "preemptive"
    },
    {
      "word": "preemptor"
    },
    {
      "word": "preemptory"
    }
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
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    {
      "form": "preempted",
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    {
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "text": "He preempted that hill to be its king.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, R. L. Hill, Brood Sows and Their Litters: A Practical Book on how to Handle the Brood Sow and Her Litter. What to Feed, when to Feed and how to Feed. Also how to Care for the Litter, page 66",
          "text": "When they have preempted their ground [=their particular teat] they want to keep it, so you often see a fight, but see that there is only one claim made and then the old sow will not be disturbed. When once ranged they will always seek the same place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Balance the Federal Budget: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session …, page 582",
          "text": "[...] the losers complaining that their party may see another popular issue preempted by what one of them called \"born-again Democratic fiscal conservatives.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To appropriate first."
      ],
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          "appropriate"
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      ],
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        "(transitive) To appropriate first."
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Floppy disks were preempted by CDs."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, National Communications Infrastructure, page 173",
          "text": "Similarly, in order to realize fully the benefits to consumers of increased competition in telecommunications, the Administration proposes to preempt state entry regulation for provision of telecommunications and information services.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Shari Shattuck, Speak of the Devil, Penguin, page 5",
          "text": "Leah and Jenny's friendship had happened upon them quickly because of a shared harrowing experience that had preempted the usual years of trust building .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David Fraser, And We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in the Second World War, A&C Black",
          "text": "A German move from the west had preempted them. By nightfall the whole Sidi Rezegh Ridge was in German occupation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To displace or take the place of (by having higher precedence, etc)."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To displace or take the place of (by having higher precedence, etc)."
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        "English transitive verbs"
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          "ref": "1985, Thomas M. Franck, Nation Against Nation: What Happened to the U.N. Dream and What the U.S. Can Do About It, Oxford University Press, page 35",
          "text": "By his statement, the Secretary-General had effectively preempted the usual frustrating debates over questions of fact and law.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Robert E. Plamondon, Blue thunder, page 372",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Robb Forman Dew, The Time of Her Life",
          "text": "In fact, before Jane said anything at all, Claudia preempted her and began to speak very rapidly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Matt Hults, Anything Can be Dangerous, Books of the Dead Press",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, K. M. Daughters, Fill the Stadium, The Wild Rose Press Inc",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Cynthia L Evetts, Suzanne M Peloquin, Mindful Crafts as Therapy: Engaging More Than Hands, F.A. Davis, page 7",
          "text": "The nurse's attention to his room and skin temperature preempted his discomfort. Professional coldness prevailed. How differently might Beisser have felt ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Cris E. Haltom, Cathie Simpson, Mary Tantillo, Understanding Teen Eating Disorders",
          "text": "Distressed and embarrassed from the previous night's group messaging, he figured he would appear more trustworthy and self-responsible to the guidance counselor if he preempted his friends' report and confessed the eating disorder.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Anthony Ephirim-Donkor, The Making of an African King, page 37",
          "text": "He always preempted his enemies by being the first to greet them and inquiring about their well-being.",
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        "To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first."
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          "beat to the punch",
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          "forestall",
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        "(transitive) To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first."
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        "English transitive verbs"
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        "To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption (purchasing before others, e.g. land because one already occupies it)."
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        "(transitive) To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption (purchasing before others, e.g. land because one already occupies it)."
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        "To make a preemptive bid at bridge."
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          "bridge"
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        "(bridge, intransitive) To make a preemptive bid at bridge."
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      "sense": "supersede",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "to appropriate",
      "word": "搶占"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to appropriate",
      "word": "搶先"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiǎngxiān",
      "sense": "to appropriate",
      "word": "抢先"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to appropriate",
      "word": "zuvorkommen"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to appropriate",
      "word": "vorgreifen"
    }
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}

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        "(bridge) A preemptive bid."
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