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What does preempt mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) to appropriate something (before someone else does)
  2. (transitive) to displace something, or take precedence over something
  3. (bridge, intransitive) to make a preemptive bid at bridge
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Regulated retail tariffs can have highly distortive effects and in certain cases preempt the creation of liberalised markets.
Its recommendations should be studied seriously, though they should not be allowed to preempt strategic development.
Allow hosts within a redundancy group that have a better advbase and advskew to preempt the master.
This largely symbolic motion, which passed, was designed to preempt a more extreme one planned by the separatist Bloc Québécois.
Explore and identify opportunities raised by the crisis and draw lessons in order to preempt the eruption of such crises in the future.
So this year, take action and preempt the chocolate raid by making him these fabulous melting and fudgy brownies for Father's Day.

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