| 词汇 | pre-empted |
| 释义 | pre-empted past participle, past simple ofpre-empt 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 hatch have something in mindidiom have something up your sleeveidiom horizon scanning how are you fixed for something?idiom pencil provide for someone provident providently provision purpose purposefully You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Replacing and exchanging Examples of pre-emptedpre-empted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The tendency of carers and supporters to discourage people with epilepsy from living a full and independent life should be anticipated and pre-empted. Both of these are pre-empted by syntactic forms in common language usage and certainly in child-directed speech. If one successfully pre-empted a projected invasion or coup attempt, it became difficult, if not impossible, to prove that the threat had ever existed. Surely, there were internal societal changes in that world that pre-empted such developments, only to be augmented and hastened by the invasion. So the vocal needs of the potential performer were carefully pre-empted and accommodated. She might talk to her partners, be supported by them, be contradicted by them, or be pre-empted by them. Although the author had pre-empted opposition in his preface, the public, being unprepared, was not so easily won over. By contrast, women's transitions were more often pre-empted or framed by pressing family demands, which provided at least one ready-made role in retirement. Once legislation has been pre-empted, environmental selfregulation is implemented under a weak shadow of hierarchy. The course of events in 1879, however, probably pre-empted such a split. Major developments in sound recording and reproduction for radio during the war had pre-empted a new peacetime obsession with the infinite musical possibilities of the tape recorder. However, tokenization decisions sometimes interact with higher-level annotation decisions, so proceeding in this way would have pre-empted some of the annotation issues that we wished to study. Whatever the spending priorities of the education authority, those moneys will be pre-empted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In those five days he has pre-empted the courtroom, the time of jurors, of witnesses and a host of others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Crude monetarism would apply to firms which wished to borrow money but could not extract it from the banking system because it had been pre-empted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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