Definition of Preemptively

1. Adverb. in a preemptive manner ¹

2. Adverb. (alternative spelling of preemptively) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Preemptively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preemptively

preempt
preemptable
preempted
preemptible
preempting
preemption
preemptioner
preemptioners
preemptions
preemptive
preemptive bid
preemptive right
preemptive self-defence
preemptive strike
preemptive strikes
preemptively (current term)
preemptor
preemptors
preemptory
preempts
preen
preen gland
preenact
preenacted
preenacting
preenacts
preened
preener
preeners
preengage

Literary usage of Preemptively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Selecting Product Development Projects: Pioneering Versus Incremental (1993)
"In the case where firms can communicate, and can credibly commit themselves to a strategy, a firm may find it optimal to preemptively announce its research ..."

2. School-linked Human Services: A Comprehensive Strategy for Aiding Students by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"In the case where firms can communicate, and can credibly commit themselves to a strategy, a firm may find it optimal to preemptively announce its research ..."

3. The Price of Dominance: The New Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their by Jan Lodal (2001)
"In practice, then, if the prompt retaliatory attack option were used at all, it would be used preemptively. Throughout the Cold War, the focus of US policy ..."

4. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"... as in this instance, preemptively include broad social objectives that leave the decision-making or implementing authority considerable room for ..."

5. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"... as in this instance, preemptively include broad social objectives that leave the decision-making or implementing authority considerable room for ..."

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