0 past participle, past simple of pre-empt
1 to do or say something before someone so that you make their words or actions unnecessary or not effective:
The tendency of carers and supporters to discourage people with epilepsy from living a full and independent life should be anticipated and pre-empted.
Both of these are pre-empted by syntactic forms in common language usage and certainly in child-directed speech.
If one successfully pre-empted a projected invasion or coup attempt, it became difficult, if not impossible, to prove that the threat had ever existed.
Surely, there were internal societal changes in that world that pre-empted such developments, only to be augmented and hastened by the invasion.
So the vocal needs of the potential performer were carefully pre-empted and accommodated.
She might talk to her partners, be supported by them, be contradicted by them, or be pre-empted by them.
Although the author had pre-empted opposition in his preface, the public, being unprepared, was not so easily won over.
By contrast, women's transitions were more often pre-empted or framed by pressing family demands, which provided at least one ready-made role in retirement.
