preempt
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Back-formation from preemption.
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preempt (third-person singular simple present preempts, present participle preempting, simple past and past participle preempted)
- (transitive) to appropriate something (before someone else does)
- (transitive) to displace something, or take precedence over something
- (bridge, intransitive) to make a preemptive bid at bridge
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