| 词汇 | preempt |
| 释义 | preempt verb[ T ] us/priˈempt/ to prevent something from happening by taking action first: State laws preempted local governments from restricting newspaper displays. If a broadcast is preempted, it is replaced by another, usually more important broadcast: One station preempted its Friday night schedule to televise the high school playoffs. preemptiveadjective[ not gradable ](alsopre-emptive)us/priˈemp·tɪv/ a preemptive air strike on an enemy base Examples of preemptpreempt This naturally leads landowners to substitute their forested areas for pasture as a means to preempt the invasion. But there is some reason to think hate speech often not only preempts immediate reply but also discourages targets from participation in public deliberations. The policy covered only the workers of medium-to-large industrial firms and the government's motive was to preempt the appeal of socialism. The present experiment provided the first assessment of the effectiveness of preempting suppletive forms in blocking argument structure overgeneralization errors. In this section we enrich the framework in order to study the interaction between the possibility of early revelation and of investment being preempted. I'd like to do something about it, to preempt it before it preempts another night of sleep. That is, communities try to preempt the field of contestants by building an early and, if possible, high quality effort. In general, therefore, hateful speech does not preempt further speech, whereas conflating pain and harm simply begs the question in favor of political regulation. Claims attempt to preempt rights for the speaker. Not only did the administrative reform movement preempt increases in monitoring resources, it also cut into existent resources. Do begging-letters, for instance, attempt to evade a physical approach that would somehow preclude or preempt condescension? They often interrupt or preempt a thought in order to show enthusiasm or involvement, expecting the other person to do the same. Our moral imperative is to relieve suffering, not to preempt the end of life. In addition, the male speakers used informatives to defend their topic control and preempt attempts to take control by female speakers. It is therefore most like self-initiated self-repair where it is preempting another's possible interpretation of the action's timing as reparable. See all examples of preempt 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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