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Preempt   /prˈiˌɛmpt/   Listen
Preempt

noun
1.
A high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding.  Synonyms: pre-empt, preemptive bid.



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"Preempt" Quotes from Famous Books



... ploughing where there are no rocks to obstruct him. The farmer of Ohio does not expect to find better soil than he leaves; but his inducements are that he can sell his land at forty or fifty dollars an acre, and preempt as good in Minnesota for a dollar and a quarter an acre. This operation leaves him a surplus fund, and he becomes a more opulent man, with better means to adorn his farm and to educate ...
— Minnesota and Dacotah • C.C. Andrews



Words linked to "Preempt" :   bid, bidding, acquire, replace, get, bridge, pre-emptive, call, supercede, supplant, pre-empt, supersede, supervene upon



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