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Pre-emptive   /pri-ˈɛmptɪv/   Listen
Pre-emptive

adjective
1.
Designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence.  Synonym: preemptive.



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"Pre-emptive" Quotes from Famous Books



... Europeans and the natives was determined in each case by the particular government which asserted and could maintain this pre-emptive privilege in the particular place. The United States succeeded to all the claims of Great Britain, both territorial and political, but no attempt, so far as is known, has been made to enlarge them. So far as they existed merely in theory, or were in their nature only exclusive of the ...
— Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, at January Term, 1832, Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in the Case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error, versus the State of Georgia • John Marshall



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