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Definition: Preempt |
PreemptVerb1. Acquire by preemption. 2. Make a preemptive bid; in bridge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Preempt |
| English words defined with "preempt": Preempted, Preempting. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | To preempt inflationary pressures the Bundesbank raised this rate by 30 basis points in October 1997 to 3.30 percent. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Venezuela | At the President's discretion, his speeches or other public appearances may be declared a "national broadcast." All television and radio stations are required by law to preempt scheduled programming and transmit the national broadcasts in their entirety. (references) |
Economic History | Sudan | However, the small industrial sector remains in the doldrums, spending for the war continues to preempt other social investments, and Sudan's inadequate and declining infrastructure inhibits economic growth. (references) |
Romania | In 1988, to preempt Congressional action, Ceausescu renounced MFN treatment, calling Jackson-Vanik and other human rights requirements unacceptable interference in Romanian sovereignty. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | According to NTV, in November, the head of the local Novolaksk Agricultural Administration, Saygid-Batal Uzunayev, admitted to hiring the killer, claiming that he did so to preempt his own contract killing by Kammayev's agent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Preempt" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Preempt" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
preempt | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "preempt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | купувам преди друг, завладявам преди друг, замествам (act for, deputize, represent, substitute, supersede, supply), правя баражен анонс, присвоявам предварително. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 先 有 (Preempted, Preempting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | předkupovat, získat předkupní právo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | durch Vorkaufsrecht erwerben. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προκατέχω (preoccupy), προαγοράζω (pre empt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לתפוס לפ י אחר, ל"ק"ים (anticipate, precede, preface), לרכוש קו"ם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mások elől megszerez (to preempt, to pre-empt), előzetesen megszerez (to preempt, to pre-empt), elővételi jogon vásárol (to preempt, to pre-empt), előre megszerez (to preempt, to pre-empt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 先制 (headstart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"せい (abjuration, ancient sage, autocracy, Confucius, despotism, doctor, headstart, master, oath, teacher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eemptpray покупать раньше других. (various references) prisvojiti (appropriate, arrogate, assume, catch hold of, convert, usurp), steći preče pravo kupovine. (various references) comprar con derecho preferente, apropiarse de (appropriate), adquirir por adelantado, adelantarse a (anticipate, forestall, foretaste, lose, outstrip). (various references) förärva genom förköpsrätt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "preempt": preempted, preempting, preemption, preemptions, preemptive, preemptively, preemptor, preemptors, preemptory, preempts. (additional references) | |
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"Preempt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pertemps, preemt, preemtp, Premet, prempt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "preempt" (pronounced prē"e'mpt) |
| 3 | -m p t | attempt, bumped, camped, clamped, contempt, cramped, crimped, damped, decamped, dumped, encamped, exempt, humped, jumped, limped, lumped, plumped, prompt, pumped, revamped, slumped, stamped, stomped, stumped, swamped, tempt, thumped, trumped, unkempt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-p-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: temper. | |
-2 letters: meter, metre, peter, remet, retem. | |
-3 letters: meet, mere, mete, peep, peer, perm, perp, pert, pree, prep, repp, rete, teem, temp, term, tree. | |
-4 letters: eme, ere, met, pee, pep, per, pet, ree, rem, rep, ret, tee. | |
-5 letters: em, er, et, me, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-p-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: preempts. | |
+2 letters: preempted, preemptor. | |
+3 letters: peppermint, peremptory, precompute, preempting, preemption, preemptive, preemptors, preemptory, prepayment, prestamped, suppertime. | |
+4 letters: pamphleteer, peppermints, pepperminty, precomputed, precomputer, precomputes, preemptions, prepayments, presumptive, suppertimes. | |
+5 letters: appraisement, epileptiform, imperceptive, impercipient, micropipette, mousetrapped, pamphleteers, peremptorily, precomputers, preeclamptic, preemptively, promptnesses, pteridosperm, supplementer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 65 6D 70 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . . -- .--. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101101 01110000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e e m p t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0065 006D 0070 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847171798286 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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