Preempted is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREEMPTED in dictionary:

VERB (USED WITHOUT OBJECT):
• to make a preemptive bid.
• to forestall or prevent (something anticipated) by acting first; preclude; head off: an effort to preempt inflation.
VERB (USED WITH OBJECT):
• to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
• to acquire or appropriate before someone else; take for oneself; arrogate: a political issue preempted by the opposition party.
• to take the place of because of priorities, reconsideration, rescheduling, etc.; supplant: The special newscast preempted the usual television program.
VERB:
• PREEMPT, to acquire by prior right
NOUN:
• a preemptive bid.

Words related to PREEMPTED

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How to use PREEMPTED in a sentence

• Greener showed foresight here in urging the Negroes to take up desirable western land before it would be preempted by foreigners.
• Babbitt had discreetly preempted a place beside Louetta on the piano bench.
• Intended only for the convenience of the transient guest, its hooks were usually preempted by the entire outer wardrobe of the family.
• Her house was still a rendezvous, but it was for couples like the ones who had preempted the drawing-room, the library and the music room that afternoon.
• So he migrated south to Ashcroft, and there he pre-empted a large lot and made arrangements for the foundation of his castle.
• More and more of them came, and they pre-empted a large portion of one of the down-town hotels.
• And until Betty had preempted a place in his heart without even trying, Jack MacRae had been quite willing to let his fancy linger romantically on Nelly Abbott.
• The gallery of the Senate chamber was early preempted by Lonny and the San Saba lobby.
• Wherever you go in the wilderness you find Meeko ahead of you, and all the best camping grounds preempted by him.
• The Club House balconies were crowded and even the roof had been pre-empted by the ladies and their escorts as a coign of vantage from which to view the game.
• All the young men in the Territory who were over nineteen had pre-empted.
• Occasionally two or three joined forces, preempted a lecture-room, and wheeled or hobbled or carried in their convalescents.
• One, which was avowed with the frankness of indignation, was a jealousy of seeing so important a business preempted by the executive department.
• Politically it was pre-empted, occupied, dominated and exploited by European empire builders, who used the over, all trade name of western civilization.
• It assumes offices which might have been allotted to some other agency, had not the family pre-empted them, profiting by its established authority and annexing them to its domain.
• This great centre was early preempted by the pioneers of missionary enterprise.

Similar words containing EMPT without suffix ed and without prefix pre

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