Preclude vs Preempt - What's the difference?
preclude | preempt |
Remove the possibility of; (l); prevent or exclude; to make (l).
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, date = 2013-08-09
, author = Douglas Main
, title = Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation
, site = livescience
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, accessdate = 2013-09-30
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to appropriate something (before someone else does)
to displace something, or take precedence over something
(bridge) to make a preemptive bid at bridge
In transitive terms the difference between preclude and preempt
is that preclude is remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible while preempt is to displace something, or take precedence over something.preclude
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* (obsolete)Verb
(preclud)- It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the possibility that the skies will clear by this afternoon!
- Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.