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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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Allow hosts within a redundancy group that have a better advbase and advskew to preempt the master.
It is not possible at this point to preempt the recommendations of the Task Force in this regard.
Regulated retail tariffs can have highly distortive effects and in certain cases preempt the creation of liberalised markets.
So this year, take action and preempt the chocolate raid by making him these fabulous melting and fudgy brownies for Father's Day.
Tokyo was hoping to preempt a more nationalistic potential buyer from making the purchase.
If responder does not have a five card suit nor stoppers in opponent's preempt, he is forced to cue bid spades and your defensive contract becomes uncomfortably high.

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