Verb (used with object) : a political issue preempted by the opposition party. ,The special newscast preempted the usual television program. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : an effort to preempt inflation. From Dictionary.com.
KING: Is the jail that he's in now any kind of a preemptor for it?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2004] Reference
GRACE: No. KING: The question was, what is it like to be the preemptor of sending someone to the death penalty?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2004] Reference
Now, the rights of an agricultural preemptor we understand. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
And, of course, nobody likes a preemptor-they always say that the preemption was unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [National Review Online] Reference
The preemptor must make a settlement on the land in person; inhabit and improve the same, and erect thereon a dwelling. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
I say second choice, because the preemptor has had the first choice long ago, and it may be before the land was surveyed. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
The preemptor has to pay about five dollars in the way of fees before he gets through the entire process of securing a title. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
The municipal preemptor, like the agricultural preemptor, is required to take his land in conformity with "the legal subdivisions of the public lands.". From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
The preemptor of either case may take fractional sections if he will, but he is in every case to run his extreme lines with the lines of the surveyed subdivisions. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
He knew the man, a preemptor of Folly Bay, a truckler to the cannery because he was always in debt to the cannery, -- and a quarrelsome individual besides, who took advantage of his size and strength to browbeat less able men. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Man's Rock] Reference
There is no pretension that such is the condition of the ordinary preemptor, and that he is thus held to inhabit, to cultivate, to dwell on, every quarter quarter-section, under penalty of having it seized by another preemptor, or entered in course by any public or private purchaser. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
And when the land has been surveyed previous to settlement the preemptor shall, within thirty days of the date of the settlement, file with the register of the proper district a written statement describing the land settled upon, and declaring the intention of such person to claim the same under the provisions of the preemption law. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
Proof of the requisite settlement and improvement shall be made by the preemptor to the satisfaction of the register and receiver, in the district in which the lands so claimed lie, who shall each be entitled to receive fifty cents from each applicant for his services rendered. as aforesaid; and all assignments and transfers of the right hereby secured prior to the issuing of the patent, shall be null and void. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota and Dacotah] Reference
Here it might be maintained that the effect occurred not because of, but despite, the preemptor (Eells. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference
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