pre-empt dans le dictionnaire Oxford-Hachette

Traductions de pre-empt dans le dictionnaire anglais»français

pre-empt [GB priːˈɛmpt, Am priˈɛmpt] VERBE trans

1. pre-empt (anticipate):

pre-empt question, decision, move

anticiper

pre-empt person

devancer

2. pre-empt (thwart):

pre-empt action, plan

contrecarrer

3. pre-empt JUR (appropriate):

pre-empt building, land

préempter

Traductions de pre-empt dans le dictionnaire français»anglais

devancer [dəvɑ̃se] VERBE trans

1. devancer (avoir de l'avance sur):

devancer

to be ahead of

devancer adversaire, concurrent

to outstrip

pour l'instant, il devance son rival de 12 minutes/2 000 voix/100 mètres

at the moment, he is 12 minutes/2, 000 votes/100 metres ahead of his opponent

un penseur qui a devancé ses contemporains

a thinker who is ahead of his time

dans la course aux exportations, nous avons été devancés par nos concurrents

our competitors have outstripped us in the exports league

2. devancer (précéder):

les pompiers ont devancé la police sur les lieux de l'accident

the fire brigade got to the scene of the accident ahead of ou before the police

3. devancer (anticiper sur):

devancer revendication, désir

to anticipate

devancer attaque, critiques

to forestall, to pre-empt

4. devancer (faire avant la date prévue):

devancer l'appel

to enlist for military service before call-up

devancer l'échéance d'un paiement

to settle a payment before the due date

pre-empt dans le dictionnaire PONS

Traductions de pre-empt dans le dictionnaire anglais»français

pre-empt VERBE trans form

1. pre-empt (act before):

pre-empt person

devancer

pre-empt action, choice

anticiper

2. pre-empt (to have a legal right):

pre-empt

avoir une priorité légale sur

3. pre-empt (to use one's legal right):

pre-empt

exercer son droit de préemption sur

Exemples monolingues (non-vérifiés par l'équipe de rédaction)

anglais

Some decisions, such as leg before wicket, always require an appeal and the umpire's decision, as no batsman will pre-empt the umpire on what requires fine judgment of several factors.

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You can't really protect everything, you got to pre-empt such events... stop them beforehand.

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In addition, local affiliates may have chosen to pre-empt the episode, with anchors delivering the news live.

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He said he did not want to pre-empt the changes but there would be more details soon.

www.abc.net.au

In a 5-4 decision, the court determined that a federal banking regulation did not pre-empt the ability of states to enforce their own fair-lending laws.

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Not surprisingly this reorganisation was of some concern to branch activists, and prompted a number of neighbouring branches to voluntarily merge in order to pre-empt any action from the centre.

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Social conservative groups opposed the amendment, arguing that it would federalize family law and pre-empt the states in areas dealing with the family.

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What can be done, however is this; you must pre-empt a default.

www.mondaq.com

We need to pre-empt this verdict and make the judges in this district aware we won't tolerate this behavior by anyone.

horsetalk.co.nz

I would prefer not to pre-empt what we could find because it's important, if we take an angle, we would be biased.

thenewdaily.com.au