0 If something is pre-emptive, it is done before other people can act, especially to prevent them from doing something else:
1 done before someone else can act, especially to prevent them doing what they had planned:
Thus, he pays particular attention to the role of national governments in reform, and sets out the broad contours of pre-emptive national and regional strategies.
We can conclude that the insidious and purposeful attacks were prompted by what psychologists call pre-emptive contempt.
Standard on-far m trials are effective in evaluating 'planned' or pre-emptive strategies (seed dressing, resistant varieties), provided that the pest is actually present.
One might term these initial correct responses pre-emptive, since the provision of negative evidence is blocked.
This pre-emptive strategy succeeded in the sense that the issue disappeared from the political agenda.
The country's leaders viewed this as a pre-emptive move to counter any threats to the ' national unity ' brought about during the long years of struggle.
Print conglomerates, for example, may offer some news publications as pre-emptive measures that make it less profitable for other companies to enter the market.
This selection bias occurred despite pre-emptive attempts to reduce it by undertaking interviews both in the daytime and the evening.
