| Pronunciation: | | pree'empt
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| Matching Terms: | | preemploy, preemployment training program, preemption, preemptioner, preemptive, preemptive bid, preemptive right, preemptor, preemptory
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- [v] make a preemptive bid; in bridge
- [v] acquire by preemption
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| | See Also: | | acquire, bid, call, get |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pre*["e]mpt"\ (?; 215), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
{Pre["e]mpted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pre["e]mpting}.] [See
{Pre["e]mption}.]
To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as
under the laws of the United States; to take by
pre["e]mption.
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| | Related Terms: | | accroach, adopt, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, colonize, commandeer, confiscate, conquer, enslave, expropriate, hog, indent, jump a claim, make free with, make use of, monopolize, occupy, overrun, preoccupy, prepossess, requisition, seize, sequester, sit on, squat on, subjugate, take, take all of, take it all, take over, take possession of, take up, usurp |
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