A high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding.
1 No advisory group should attempt to pre-empt , less still usurp that role.
2 It would not be appropriate to pre-empt the findings of the review.
3 World View: Is our aim to prevent war or to pre-empt apparent threats?
4 They need swift on-the-go insight to learn more, faster, and to pre-empt problems.
5 Mr Philippe says the group should in no way pre-empt the vote's outcome.
6 I am not going to pre-empt the decisions, he said yesterday.
7 The boat people fear Israel could try to pre-empt the voyage.
8 Gecamines had previously argued that it had a right to pre-empt the deals.
9 The sale of the Witchita-based aircraft maker would pre-empt a full-blown debt restructuring.
10 Now all they want is to intimidate and pre-empt an uprising against them.
11 Tom Cloyd on the Sleight of Mind blog tries to pre-empt the outrage.
12 Israel has hinted at the idea of military action to pre-empt a nuclear Iran.
13 They are unlikely to pre-empt the result of Sunday's referendum by committing either way.
14 Both Palestinian and Israeli officials hope to pre-empt the violence his death could provoke.
15 And we want to pre-empt that potential danger, he said.
16 Photo: SUPPLIED But imagine if it could pre-empt what you were thinking or feeling?
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