preemptive bid

1. 1.

   a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding

   Synonymspre-emptpreempt

   Broaderbid

Questions about preemptive bid

What does preemptive bid mean?

preemptive bid means "a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding".

What is another word for preemptive bid?

Close synonyms include pre-empt, preempt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is preemptive bid a common word?

preemptive bid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.