Definition of pre-empt in English English dictionary
pre-empt pre-empts pre-empting pre-empted in AM, usually use preempt If you pre-empt an action, you prevent it from happening by doing something which makes it unnecessary or impossible. You can pre-empt pain by taking a painkiller at the first warning sign He pre-empted any decision to sack him + pre-emption pre-emption Pre-emption was the only method of averting defeat
Courts and arbitrators should therefore think twice before interpreting the Convention so expansively as to preëmpt domestic rules designed to provide parties to sales (and other) contracts with alternative bases of remedial relief.
The currently executing thread may be preempted, or forced to yield control, by a higher priority thread that becomes eligible to run during its timeslice