"emptive" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Marc Silver, Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) During Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond, Rodale, page 227",
          "text": "Mike Malone recalls how the shaving of his fiancée's head was more of an “emptive” strike, since her hair was already on its way out.",
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          "ref": "2006, A. M. Natarajan, P. Balasubramani, Operations Research, Dorling Kindersley, published 2009, page 498",
          "text": "Emptive priority: The service to non-priority customer is stopped as soon as a priority customer arrives.",
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          "ref": "2010, N. K. Singh, Simulation of Network Traffic Based on Queing Theory Using OPNET, page 12",
          "text": "This situation can be dealt with either in an emptive or pre-emptive fashion. In an emptive system the new entry waits for the other to be completed before beginning. In a pre-emptive system the queue can stop the current entry half way through its execution to start the new one.",
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        "Responding to or acting to counteract something when it happens (rather than beforehand)."
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        "(rare) Responding to or acting to counteract something when it happens (rather than beforehand)."
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  "word": "emptive"
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