Usually means: Acting before others can act.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word pre-emption:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. pre-emption, pre-emption: Collins English Dictionary
  2. pre-emption: Vocabulary.com
  3. Pre-emption, pre-emption: Wordnik
  4. pre-emption: Wiktionary
  5. pre-emption: Dictionary.com
  6. pre-emption: Online Etymology Dictionary
  7. Pre-emption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. pre-emption: Rhymezone
  9. pre-emption: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. pre-emption: FreeDictionary.org
  11. pre-emption: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. pre-emption: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  4. Pre-emption: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. pre-emption: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pre-emption)

noun:  Alternative spelling of preemption [An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as:]

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