pre-empt

pre-emptive | Business English

pre-emptive
adjective
(alsopreemptive)ukus
done before someone else can act, especially to prevent them doing what they had planned:
pre-emptive action/measure/moveThe Treasury decided to raise interest rates as a pre-emptive measure against inflation.

Examples of pre-emptive

pre-emptive
Thus, he pays particular attention to the role of national governments in reform, and sets out the broad contours of pre-emptive national and regional strategies.
We can conclude that the insidious and purposeful attacks were prompted by what psychologists call pre-emptive contempt.
Standard on-far m trials are effective in evaluating 'planned' or pre-emptive strategies (seed dressing, resistant varieties), provided that the pest is actually present.
One might term these initial correct responses pre-emptive, since the provision of negative evidence is blocked.
This pre-emptive strategy succeeded in the sense that the issue disappeared from the political agenda.
The country's leaders viewed this as a pre-emptive move to counter any threats to the ' national unity ' brought about during the long years of struggle.
Print conglomerates, for example, may offer some news publications as pre-emptive measures that make it less profitable for other companies to enter the market.
This selection bias occurred despite pre-emptive attempts to reduce it by undertaking interviews both in the daytime and the evening.
These pre-emptive stages substantially and profoundly inform a film composer about the film score before it is written.
It therefore became possible for him to approve both the pre-emptive attack and the defence against it as just causes.
Strong labour potential alone could not explain why the late-authoritarian regimes chose pre-emptive accommodation in response to discontent arising from the worsening of income inequality.
The discovery of a pretext for pre-emptive action was, therefore, essential.
By alleviating some labour grievances (see footnote 62), selective policies of redistribution and inclusion were implemented to pre-empt labour unrest (pre-emptive accommodation).
Despite the author's pre-emptive remarks defending the discontinuities in the text (p. 10), in fact the book's length and structure harm is accessibility.
Furthermore, if the value of the improvements exceeded forty pounds, the land was exempt from conditional sale or pre-emptive lease by others.
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