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: --
Crude monetarism would apply to firms which wished to borrow money but could not extract it from the banking system because it had been pre-empted.
In those five days he has pre-empted the courtroom, the time of jurors, of witnesses and a host of others.
Whatever the spending priorities of the education authority, those moneys will be pre-empted.
However, tokenization decisions sometimes interact with higher-level annotation decisions, so proceeding in this way would have pre-empted some of the annotation issues that we wished to study.
Major developments in sound recording and reproduction for radio during the war had pre-empted a new peacetime obsession with the infinite musical possibilities of the tape recorder.
The course of events in 1879, however, probably pre-empted such a split.
Once legislation has been pre-empted, environmental selfregulation is implemented under a weak shadow of hierarchy.
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.
