Preempt vs Ahead - What's the difference?
preempt | ahead |
to appropriate something (before someone else does)
to displace something, or take precedence over something
(bridge) to make a preemptive bid at bridge
In or to the front; in advance; onward.
Having progressed more.
In the direction one is facing or moving.
in the future, preceding
*{{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
, page =
, passage = The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them.
}}
As a verb preempt
is (nonstandard).As an adverb ahead is
in or to the front; in advance; onward.preempt
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Alternative forms
* pre-empt *Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* preemptive * preemptor * preemptoryAnagrams
* English words with vowel pseudo-digraphsahead
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Adverb
(-)- The island bore but a little ahead of us. --Fielding.
- He is far ahead of his class in math.
- Just ahead you can see the cliffs.