What is "pre-empted"

Usage examples of "pre-empted".

Usually it was pre-empted by the boy whose father rented the store on the ground floor.

If he was lucky enough to get there (where there were but ten lavatories for five hundred children), he'd find the places pre-empted by the ten most brutalized children in the school.

But she hated her because she pre-empted those free hours, a few of which would have made Francie happy.

They would wait patiently as he plunged through the air and destroyed them exactly, the carnage of each step pre-empted by the spiders themselves, queuing up to die.

Todd had pre-empted Hrriss's company and, with Bill Moody and another cub, had gone off to the village to play some Hrruban game.

Well, Third did exactly as First hoped he would when he threw the circuits wide open on Rrala and pre-empted all communication channels.

Even in the final chapter, Heath pre-empted the laboratory science, so Od was still a political officer.

Od, too, pre-empted one person for one sequence: Lieutenant Khoyzyanov of the marines, at the grain elevator.