0 to do or say something before someone so that you make their words or actions unnecessary or not effective: --
1 to do or say something before someone else does, especially to prevent them doing or saying what they had planned or to prevent their action being effective: --
The subjects also demonstrated many insights into the usefulness of proactive strategies to control the communication interaction and pre-empt a breakdown.
It is leaders who anticipate a future downturn who pre-empt the decline by calling early elections.
If so, some of these children would meet with undeserved catastrophes, such as early disability or death, which would pre-empt fair moral testing.
Technology has come to pre-empt the judgment of the clinician (45;43, 34).
Given the constant threat of voter mobilisation, policymakers have an incentive to pre-empt dissent by formulating policies that do not alienate diffuse interests.
Given these changes, it is hard to justify mandatory public voting in order to pre-empt morally wrongful voting.
The primary goal of many developing states is to maintain social control and pre-empt challenges to the state.
The open loop solution overlooks strategic responses,7 in which players pre-empt the opponents by extracting more (strategic externality).
