preëmpt
/pɹiːˈɛmpt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He was appointed probate judge by Governor Medary in 1859, and under the territorial laws it became his duty to preëmpt the townsite of Burlington, which he did, his predecessor, W. R. Saunders, having resigned to escape that duty."
- "…such as Koffka’s allusion ¹ to some lectures on personality by Wertheimer, one of the leaders of the Gestalt psychology, that not all its representatives share the circumscribed view that we must preëmpt the problem of perception in all its diversified phases before we can venture forth on any other task.²"
- "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."
Etymology
Back-formation from preëmption.