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preempt
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[ verb ] acquire by preemption
Used in print (Patrick Dennis, Little Me....)`` It is as though '' , I said on the historic three-hour , coast-to-coast radio_broadcast which I bought ( following Father_Coughlin and pre_empting the Eddie_Cantor , Manhattan_Merry-go-round and Major_Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White_House , like some despot of yore , insisted on reading my diary , raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie ! '' Related terms |
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