accroach, appropriate, colonize, conquer, hog, make free with, occupy, prepossess, sequester, subjugate, take it all, take up
Definitionn. a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding
Last update: September 26, 2015
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"To preempt or wait," Jenn murmured. [verb]
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He said it was much better to preempt attacks than just react to them. [verb]
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"To preempt or wait," Jenn murmured. [Please select]
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Babbitt had discreetly preempted a place beside Louetta on the piano bench. [Please select]
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Among the wild kindreds, even as among men, most things worth having are preempted. [Please select]
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But this region was at once preempted for freedom upon the discovery of gold. [Please select]
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"Lower ten, car seven," was my berth-the one I had bought and found preempted. [Please select]
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The latter was the more popular, perhaps because it seemed at one time that Panama was preempted by De Lesseps' French company. [Please select]
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Around the walls of the yellow parlor, chairs stood two deep, occupied, or preempted by fan or gloves or lacy handkerchief. [Please select]
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A Lilliputian spider-web was stretched over the preempted keyhole, and he fetched a grass-stem and poked out its tiny gray-striped denizen before he inserted the key in the rusted lock. [Please select]
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Gould, who was then extending his railroad system into the preempted field and was also making surveys and had financed a company to build an entirely new railroad from Pittsburgh to the Atlantic Coast. [Please select]
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