Usually means: Acting before others to prevent.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. preempting: Merriam-Webster
  2. preempting: Vocabulary.com
  3. Preempting, preempting: Wordnik
  4. preempting: Wiktionary
  5. Preempting, preempting: Dictionary.com
  6. preempting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. Preempting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Preempting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. preempting: FreeDictionary.org
  10. preempting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preempting: Legal dictionary

(Note: See preempt as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (preempt)

verb:  (transitive) To appropriate first.
verb:  (transitive) To displace or take the place of (by having higher precedence, etc).
verb:  (transitive) To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first.
verb:  (transitive) To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption (purchasing before others, e.g. land because one already occupies it).
verb:  (bridge, intransitive) To make a preemptive bid at bridge.
noun:  (bridge) A preemptive bid.
▸ Also see preempt


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