zuvorkommen — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
zuvorkommen is used for these senses in English:
- forestall To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
forestall — full definition
- verb To stop something from happening by acting early to get in its way.
- verb To rule something out completely so that it cannot happen.
- verb To buy up the whole stock of something, especially food, so it can be sold at a very high price.
- verb To act early because you expect something to happen.
preempt — full definition
- verb To take or claim something before anyone else can.
- verb To replace something else because it has greater priority.
- verb To act first in order to stop something expected from happening.
- verb To gain the right to buy something, such as land, ahead of others, often because you already occupy it.
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