| 词汇 | pre-empt |
| 释义 | pre-empt verb[ T ] mainly UK(also mainly USpreempt)uk /ˌpriːˈempt/ us /ˌpriːˈempt/ to do or say something before someone so that you make their words or actions unnecessary or not effective: 抢在…之前说话（或行动）;预先制止 The minister held a press conference in order to pre-empt criticism in the newspapers.部长召开了记者招待会，旨在先发制人，预先防备各报纸的指责批评。 You need to be prepared and preempt the impact of the change before it happens. US to replace one television programme with another, usually more important one: 代替，取代（电视节目） All the networks pre-empted their regular schedules to broadcast news of the hijacking.所有的电视网都取消了安排好的节目，转而播放劫机的新闻。 For several days, this story preempted all others in the news schedules. Planning, expecting and arranging accidentally accidentally on purposeidiom advertent advisedly aim at something bargain conscious game something out have something in mindidiom have something up your sleeveidiom horizon scanning how are you fixed for something?idiom pencil provident providently provision purpose purposefully purposely settle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Replacing and exchanging pre-empt | Business Englishpre-empt verb[ T ] (alsopreempt)uk /ˌpriːˈempt/us to do or say something before someone else does, especially to prevent them doing or saying what they had planned or to prevent their action being effective: The group raised its offer in an attempt to pre-empt a possible counterbid from a rival. Examples of pre-emptpre-empt In the preface to this book the authors pre-empt some of the criticisms they feel may be made by potential reviewers. Nor is it enough to merely pre-empt criticism; it is also necessary to develop a different narrative by situating arguments within space and time. The good architect's intuition guides him or her to think around the corner and pre-empt problems. They had attempted to pre-empt negative criticism of his works by turning potential weaknesses into strengths. His reserves of data and references pre-empt or deter the more obvious forms of attack. Then the exotic must be tamed and dressedup in order to pre-empt any evocation of the enemy within. It would be unfair to pre-empt full publication of this work, and a short summary would do violence to the nuance of its analysis. The open loop solution overlooks strategic responses,7 in which players pre-empt the opponents by extracting more (strategic externality). The primary goal of many developing states is to maintain social control and pre-empt challenges to the state. Given these changes, it is hard to justify mandatory public voting in order to pre-empt morally wrongful voting. Given the constant threat of voter mobilisation, policymakers have an incentive to pre-empt dissent by formulating policies that do not alienate diffuse interests. Technology has come to pre-empt the judgment of the clinician (45;43, 34). If so, some of these children would meet with undeserved catastrophes, such as early disability or death, which would pre-empt fair moral testing. It is leaders who anticipate a future downturn who pre-empt the decline by calling early elections. The subjects also demonstrated many insights into the usefulness of proactive strategies to control the communication interaction and pre-empt a breakdown. See all examples of pre-empt These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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