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Definition of Preemptive
1. Adjective. Designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence. "A preemptive business offer"
Similar to: Preventative, Preventive
Derivative terms: Preempt, Preempt, Preempt, Preempt
Definition of Preemptive
1. Adjective. of or relating to preemption ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a military strike) made so as to gain an advantage when an enemy strike is anticipated ¹
3. Adjective. made so as to deter an anticipated unpleasant situation ¹
4. Adjective. (''in Bridge, of a high-level bid'') intended to interfere with an opponent's bidding ¹
5. Adjective. Of, or pertaining unto, preëmption. ¹
6. Adjective. (context: of a military strike) Enacted with the intention of preëmpting an anticipated enemy strike. ¹
7. Adjective. Intended to mitigate or nullify an anticipated detrimental future event. ¹
8. Adjective. (context: bridge of an auction bid) Intended to interfere with an opponent’s bidding. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preemptive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preemptive
Literary usage of Preemptive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"It does not appear that the grantors of the defendant ever contemplated the
acquisition of a preemptive right to the lands by their settlement; and, 2. ..."
2. Auction Developments by Milton C. Work (1913)
"The question of whether preemptive bids are advantageous has become of very ...
The so-called preemptive bid has three such objects : — (1) It gives ..."
3. Neither Left Nor Right: Selected Columns by Tibor R. Machan (2004)
"Consider that all government regulations are preemptive measures. When government
threatens to fine or jail someone for producing, say, pajamas that might ..."
4. The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons by Sidney David Drell, James E. Goodby (2003)
"The Practice of Preventive or preemptive Military Action Any anti-proliferation
campaign, to be successful, must attack the sources of the problem. ..."
5. Programming In Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy (2003)
"9,4 Non-preemptive Multithreading As we saw earlier, coroutines are a kind of
... However, with non-preemptive multithreading, whenever any thread calls a ..."
6. The Preferential Treatment of the Actual Settler in the Primary Disposition by Henry Tatter (1979)
"PART TWO THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE preemptive SYSTEM CHAPTER XI THE SQUATTING
PROCESS .'.hen John «dams remarked that the American wilderness was the safety ..."
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